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Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”

This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.

How about Thu for Thursday?

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

#122

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iPhone 14, iOS 16.0.3 English, US, No Tabs, Wifi Launch Safari Tap address bar Type "old"

Yes! See, this is what we need more of!

Surely there's an automated battery of configurations that devs can test against if they really want to fix the bug?

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

#124

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Excludes Hawaii, and Alaska (+ all other non state islands/territories)

Continental includes Alaska, as it's on the same continent, but contiguous does not.

Good thing this acronym distingui- oh.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

#125

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These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”

This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.

Apr for April :P

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

#126

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Excludes Hawaii, and Alaska (+ all other non state islands/territories)

Continental includes Alaska, as it's on the same continent, but contiguous does not.

I mean, _you'd think_, but: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/CONUS#Usage_notes

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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For those not reproducing: your device may have to reside CONUS for some of "tar"(-get), "bes"(-tbuy), "wal"(-mart), "wel"(-ls fargo), "old"(-navy?), "sta"(-rbucks), "pla"(-net fitness?) to work. Try local brands, e.g., "Harrods", "Tesco", "Picard", etc. For my country "Gusto", a casual dining franchise, reproduces the issue. List is from [1]. Edit: stopped reproducing here as of 19:11 UTC. Edit: some people digged i…

I like the many possibilities here of 1. apple shipped a feature for walmart causing their browser to crash 2. apple shipped walmart code in their browser which crashed 3. apple shipped walmart plugin in their browser and then apple made a breaking change which crashed 3rd one is my favorite because it's the most dysfunctional

The reality will be more like Safari suggestions API sending malformed response for some scenarios, crashing the app.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

#128

You thought only a bug inside your app could crash it? Now your browser can crash because of a bug on a server, somewhere, which you weren't planning on browsing to, let alone even knew existed. The future truly is here.

It’s still a bug in the app.

“Fail gracefully” for malformed responses. If a JSON API all of a sudden starts returning a cloudflare html error response, you shouldn’t crash your iPhone app.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

#129

No, doesn’t crash for me.

In a blank address bar, not just anywhere. Crashed mine, sure enough, first try. I'm on 16.1 (haven't updated to 16.1.1 yet).

I try to avoid updating my iPhone for as long as humanly possible. I find updates generally bring bugs, features I don’t want, apps I don’t want, and sometimes taking away things I like.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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> your device may have to reside CONUS for some of "tar"(-get), "bes"(-tbuy), I have no idea what this means

These initialisms, abbreviations and acronyms are getting out of hand.

Specifically the use of military jargon to describe consumer software
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