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So that you can embed it in all of your pages secretly and get users to switch from IE to pretty much any other browser that actually follows web standards for implementation.
Right, but why write a wrapper that detects the browser for it? Just ... include it.
I can't be the only one that saw this, and immediately thought "Wrap this in some browser detection code, and display it in a tiny iframe if you're using an inferior browser..." No? Anyone? Guess I'm wearing a black hat today.
>This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10. That headline sounds disingenuous and somewhat flamebaity given that 10 is still in development and the latest public version available on Windows 8 does not crash.
It also doesn't crash IE9 on my Windows 7 PC or Windows Phone. I don't think most people have actually tried the page in IE9.
Wow. I guess Microsoft is still the pinata. I write web-based software. Every day. I have made every browser crash and become completely non-responsive, many times over. Chrome. Firefox. Opera. All of them. Now, this is mostly through JavaScript, when I do something stupid by manipulating the DOM the wrong way or some other funny thing. I fix it and keep going. Because breaking the browser is bad. Want to report it t…
We have a winner. Want browsers to play nice? Write good code.
Wow. I guess Microsoft is still the pinata. I write web-based software. Every day. I have made every browser crash and become completely non-responsive, many times over. Chrome. Firefox. Opera. All of them. Now, this is mostly through JavaScript, when I do something stupid by manipulating the DOM the wrong way or some other funny thing. I fix it and keep going. Because breaking the browser is bad. Want to report it t…
Time to report bug to Microsoft: 30 minutes. Time to create website for bug: 4 minutes. #justsayin
Does stuff like this make any one else think of "I cannot by played on record player X" from Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach?
The corresponding analogy would be if the Crab's record player broke any time a particularly bad pop song came on. It could tell by looking at the song whether or not it would break, but the designers didn't bother to fix it because no one wants to listen to bad pop music anyway.
>This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10. That headline sounds disingenuous and somewhat flamebaity given that 10 is still in development and the latest public version available on Windows 8 does not crash.
It also doesn't crash IE9 on my Windows 7 PC or Windows Phone. I don't think most people have actually tried the page in IE9.
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Where is the bug report? I'd be curious to read the response from Microsoft. (The link on the page is just to a Google Group discussion, which doesn't appear to have participation from Microsoft.)
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/554467/loa...
> Page Not Found
> The content that you requested cannot be found or you do not have permission to view it.
Did they remove the item?
Everyone create a script on all your websites that randomly implements this bug on some but not all pages (definitely not landing & home pages) then watch as little by little millions of users think their IE is broken and messed up and start using other browsers. A few sites alone wouldn't make a difference but over the course of its life even websites with normal amounts of traffic build up 30,000 unique visitors after a few years. Combined that would do some damage to IE's stability. Yes it's evil because you're deliberately crashing innocent people's browsers but aren't they evil/foolish for deliberately using IE and making us work harder to support it?
Sometimes users have to learn things the hard way.
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I agree with you in that content should never be able to crash software. I disagree with you TV example, however. If the same TV show repeatedly crashed one of the most popular TV models, consumers would blame the show.
well, that would be stupid