Why in IE8 <script /> won't work with jquery?

Question

Hi guyz,

I have a website using ASP.NET MVC, everything was working fine, but I'd like to add some jquery stuff, then I imported the .js in my master page and when I run it my page doesn't work in the Internet Explorer anymore, I only get the background color. In Google Chrome it works nice, so in Firefox. Then I got a look in some pages in the web and I realized that they were using:

<script type="text/javascript" src"..."></script>

and not

<script type="text/javascript" src"..." />

like I was. I did this change and it work! But how I can explain it, why the short way won't work in IE 8?

Answer 1

See this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69913/why-dont-self-closing-script-tags-work