Syntax Highlighting in 1023 bytes of JavaScript

My entry for the JS1k contest is a JavaScript Syntax Highlighter implemented in 1023 bytes of JavaScript – just one byte short of the contest limit. I also submitted an uncompressed and somewhat more readable version of the source.

The highlighter recognizes keywords, strings, comments (single and multi line), numbers, regexp and punctuations. And as far as I can tell, it works perfectly. It handles escaped characters as well as /* "strings" in comments */ and "comments // in strings" correctly.

I really doubt that I'm going to win anything with this though, as there are already many other unbelievably awesome demos.

Update: Stripped a few more bytes (1005 now) and formatted the source so it's actually readable. I also made the script a Quine – a program that prints its own source. You can find the new version here.