JavaScript comment starting with /*!

Question

My editor (Geany) changes the colour of a comment when a comment starts with /*!. What\'s the difference between /* ... */ and /*! ... */

Answer 1

They are both treated as comments in JavaScript. For the second one, since the exclamation is inside, JavaScript doesn't care what's inside the comment anyway.

Tools that minimizes or compresses JavaScript files would get rid of anything inside /* ... */, but would leave the second style of comment intact. The reason is so that there's a way to keep the copyright information in the minified or compressed version of JavaScript files.