Javascript launching with (or without) document.writeln?

I have been looking at some tracking issues and have a question pertaining to the launching of scripts. Can someone tell me if there is a difference between:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.example.com/universalPixel.html"></script>

and

<script language="JavaScript"> document.writeln('<scri' + 'pt type="text/javascript" src="http://www.example.com/universalPixel.html"></scri' + 'pt>');</script>

I have seen these two variations and unfortunately have not been able to discern if there is a significant difference dependent on the inclusion of the document.writeln method. Or perhaps another distinction that I am unaware of.

Thank yo开发者_运维百科u for your help.

Alex

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document.writeln is probably used to dynamically include a script, using that strange string concatenation method because the browser processes </script> appearing anywhere as the end of the script tag, even inside of a JavaScript string. So the following would not work correctly for that reason:

<script type="text/javascript">
    // code

    document.writeln('<script type="text/javascript" src="..."></script>");
    // ^^ the </script> above ends the previous <script> tag prematurely.

    // more code
</script>

But there are better methods:

1. Just include them normally, using <script src="..">
2. Dynamically generate includes using server-side code (i.e., PHP) instead of JavaScript
3. Use a JS library that provides dynamic library loading.

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Since document.writeLn is discouraged in XHTML, you should attempt to use option 1. Many strict browsers will even ignore the second item if the appropriate doctype is used.