> Edit 2: It seems Chrome chokes on the space... does anyone know if the initial space is valid? I'm pretty sure I've seen parsers that accept it... Most brows

> Edit 2: It seems Chrome chokes on the space... does anyone know if the initial space is valid? I'm pretty sure I've seen parsers that accept it... Most browsers probably can deal with it, but it's not valid xml/html. Try passing it through a validator, it'll complain about foreign characters after `<` and then complain about a trailing `</script>` as <script> was never opened in the first place.