Javascript, Konqueror/Safari and Enkoder

I use the old Windows command-line version of the hivelogic.com Enkoder. As it stands, it generates a bunch of document.write() vomit. This of course doesn't work if you want to serve a page as XHTML. You need to use the DOM.

My first take was to replace each string extraction as

	var mailtext= '';
	while( data[idx]!=n ) {
	mailtext+=% + (data[idx++]^n).toString(16);
	}
	idx++;
	document.getElementById('mailtag').lastChild.setAttribute(
	'href', unescape(mailtext));

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which works in IE and Gecko. But that generates a mess in Konqueror. This works well there as well:

	var mailtext= '';
	while( data[idx]!=n ) {
	mailtext+=String.fromCharCode(data[idx++]^n);
	}
	idx++;
	document.getElementById('mailtag').lastChild.setAttribute(
	'href', mailtext);

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Which is odd, since they should be equivalent.

Alas the current Enkoder version is not only not available as a free-standing .exe except on Mac, its output is not at all amenable to rephrasing as DOM manipulation, being a blob that expands (somehow) in situ.