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* Replace tiny bitmaps with base64-encoded URIs

* Optimize SVGs; replace logo PNG with SVG

* Modernize favicon

* Embed CSS; a bit unorthodox, but we’re a single page so there’s no point in separate .css files and their separate HTTP requests

* Documentation is now markdown, converted to HTML on compilation

* Render the examples when we’re rendering index.html; they compile so quickly that there’s no need to pre-render them and save the intermediate .js files

* Split apart index.html into components that Cakefile assembles, so that we can add in logic to include different files for v1 versus v2

* Split building index.html and building test.html into two tasks; collapse the parts of `releaseHeader` into one compact function

* Move include logic into templates

* Get error messages tests to work in the browser

* Update output index.html

* Split body into nav and body

* Watch subtemplates

* Revert "Split body into nav and body"

This reverts commit ec9e559ec0.

* Add marked

* Update gitignore

* Use idiomatic markdown output for code blocks (<pre><code>)

* Handle ids within the template, not in the Cakefile; remove marked’s auto-generated and conflicting ids

* Move the `codeFor` function into versioned folders, so that v1 and v2 docs can have different example code blocks/editors

* Update packages, including new highlight.js which supports our newer keywords and triple backticks (docs output is unchanged)
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"text/coffeescript" Script Tags

While its not recommended for serious use, CoffeeScripts may be included directly within the browser using <script type="text/coffeescript"> tags. The source includes a compressed and minified version of the compiler ([Download current version here, 51k when gzipped](v<%= majorVersion %>/browser-compiler/coffee-script.js)) as v<%= majorVersion %>/browser-compiler/coffee-script.js. Include this file on a page with inline CoffeeScript tags, and it will compile and evaluate them in order.

In fact, the little bit of glue script that runs “Try CoffeeScript” above, as well as the jQuery for the menu, is implemented in just this way. View source and look at the bottom of the page to see the example. Including the script also gives you access to CoffeeScript.compile() so you can pop open Firebug and try compiling some strings.

The usual caveats about CoffeeScript apply — your inline scripts will run within a closure wrapper, so if you want to expose global variables or functions, attach them to the window object.