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I have been looking at the html5 boilerplate and noticed that the jquery include url starts with a double slash. The url is //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js
Why is the http: missing?
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The double slash is a comment. Triple slash doesn't mean anything special, but it might be a comment that was added right before a division. Show activity on this post. Short answer: Those are just comments.
It means, that the link reference uses the same protocol (http: or https:) like the current page. If you call the page with http: the link goes to http: as well, if you call the page with https: the link has https too. This is most useful not only for links but for images, javascript and other external resources.
you create a string in javascript by putting the string inside quotations: var answer = "It's alright"; var answer = "He is called 'Johnny'"; var answer = 'He is called "Johnny"'; Which you have correctly done.
Answer. When a string is double quoted, it is processed by the compiler and again at run-time. Since a backslash (\) is removed whenever the string is processed, the double-quoted string needs double backslashes so that there is one left in the string at run time to escape a "special character".
I hate answering with a link but this explains it - http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
Using a protocol relative URL like "//mydomain/myresource" will ensure that the content will be served via the same scheme as the hosting page. It can make testing a bit more awkward if you ever use FILE:// and then some remote locations as they will obviously resolve back to FILE. Never the less it does resolve the mixed insecure/secure content messages you can cause by not using it.
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