JavaScript errors at page load with IE 5.01

[vdboor]

The jQuery scripts can't be loaded in IE 5.01. It ends with an "unexpected quantifier" error, at line 778 (copied below):

// Fix "XHTML"-style tags in all browsers
arg = arg.replace(/(<(\w+)[^>]*?)\/>/g, function(m, all, tag){
	return tag.match(/^(abbr|br|col|img|input|link|meta|param|hr|area)$/i)? m : all+"></"+tag+">";
});

[davidserduke]

jQuery does not support IE5 any longer. Please see:

​http://docs.jquery.com/Browser_Compatibility

For what browsers are supported.

If this can happen in a supported browser please reopen the bug with an appropriate test case. Thanks.