Fix UCSF featured videos JSON payload escaping in profile page script#3
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UCSFFeaturedVideos currently renders plugin JSON into FeaturedVideos.init('...') using manual backslash and apostrophe replacement. That escaping leaves sequences like \' inside the JSON text seen by JSON.parse(), which causes pages with titles such as "Here's Why" to fail at runtime with JSON.parse: bad escaped character.
Replace the manual string munging with HttpUtility.JavaScriptStringEncode() so the HTML emits a valid JavaScript string literal while preserving the existing client-side contract. FeaturedVideos.js continues to receive a JSON string and parse it as before; only the server-side escaping strategy changes.
This keeps the fix narrowly scoped to UCSFFeaturedVideos and avoids changing database data or the shared video module behavior.
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UCSFFeaturedVideos currently renders plugin JSON into FeaturedVideos.init('...') using manual backslash and apostrophe replacement. That escaping leaves sequences like ' inside the JSON text seen by JSON.parse(), which causes pages with titles such as "Here's Why" to fail at runtime with JSON.parse: bad escaped character.
Replace the manual string munging with HttpUtility.JavaScriptStringEncode() so the HTML emits a valid JavaScript string literal while preserving the existing client-side contract. FeaturedVideos.js continues to receive a JSON string and parse it as before; only the server-side escaping strategy changes.
This keeps the fix narrowly scoped to UCSFFeaturedVideos and avoids changing database data or the shared video module behavior.