Browser: Safari 2.0.4

OS: MacOSX 10.4

Steps to reproduce:

1) create a string variable w/ html markup containing linebreaks and html comments.

ie: var data = "<!-- data --!>\\n \\n <li>asdlkj<div></div>\\n</li>\\n<li>asdasd</li>\\n<!-- end -->"

2) var $newlist = $(data).filter('li');

Expected Result: $newlist is a jQuery object

Actual Result: Safari crashes and browser window closes.

Workaround:

var div = createElement('div');

div.innerHTML = data;

var lis = div.childNodes;

$newlist = $(lis);