What happens when you include HTML comments inside your JavaScript?

When JavaScript was first introduced, only Netscape 2 supported it and so it was necessary to hide the JavaScript from browsers such as Netscape 1 and IE2 which didn't understand the script tag and would therefore display the script instead of running it. Many people still include the HTML comment code to hide the script from the huge number of visitors that they get who still use Netscape 1 and IE2. For those of us who don't have any visitors who still use such antiquated browsers we can remove those comments. Let's take a look at how we should be coding our embedded JavaScript now (as opposed to how it needed to be don way back in the 20th Century).

HTML Comments and JavaScript