title: JavaScript: split doesn't work in IE?
body: <p>Is there a reason why the following piece of code doesn't work in IE?
  While with FF and other sane browsers it splits the string by the given expression, in IE it simply doesn't work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>var str = "abc&lt;font id=\"something\"&gt;def&lt;/font&gt;gh";
  alert(str.split(/(\&lt;.*?\&gt;|.)/).length);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>