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I think the idea is that if you use single quotes for strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes that are often found in html. 'something</

I think the idea is that if you use single quotes for strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes that are often found in html. 'something' But the same goes for something like "you can't do that" I guess it just depends what you don't want to escape. For Google, the more probable scenario was probably the former.

julian37 15y ago
The former isn't a very good reason: HTML/XML accept both double and single quotes, so "something" would work equally well.
- joshontheweb 15y ago
 yes, but it is much more common for double quotes to be used in html

I think the idea is that if you use single quotes for strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes that are often found in html. '<p id="foo">something</

I think the idea is that if you use single quotes for strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes that are often found in html. '<p id="foo">something</