IE8 is Evil.

>>var d = {1:"one", 2:"two",}
  "Expected identifier, string or number"

But that works in IE9's IE8 mode!

Fortunately IE10 does reproduce this bug; too bad IE9 won't upgrade on this Windows 7 machine due to DLL hell. Good thing i have remote desktops:

>>var d = {1:"one", 2:"two"}
undefined
>>d
{...}

That also works in IE8. Bug solved!

But wait, there's more! IE10's IE8 mode happily skips over

var approved_headcount = {
 "ICT": {201301: 1, 201302: 2, 2013.03: 3, 201304: 1, 201305: 2, 201306: 3},
 "Finance": {201301: 1, 201302: 2, 201303: 3, 201304: 1, 201305: 2, 201306: 3},
}

and is thus buggy at being buggy.

I guess they incinerated the IE8 parser as it also returns incorrect line numbers while parsing that code block.

First post!

As Facebook shows no respect for user content with its numerous privacy and service changes, not to mention the wealth of game spam, Blogger remains an appealing alternative. Let's hope it doesn't get axed like Yahoo's 360/Pulse/journal-du-jour.