>  Isn't this part of the HTML spec?  I realize that its a bit 
> silly that not using a closing script element breaks the page

that's what the HTML spec would demand, so this behaviour doesn't seem
silly to me. remember in html script is a CDATA eleemnt so it turns off
< and & as being special characters and normal processing only begins
after the literal string </script appears. So ypu can't omit the end tag.

David

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