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Does not crash IE10 on Release Preview 64-bit. Neither desktop or Metro version.
I updated the page (which I hadn't touched since mid-2011) to say it doesn't crash the current RC of IE10. Hopefully people will stop flaming me on Twitter now...
I'm the author that discovered this bug - and went way out of my way to tell the Internet Explorer team about it. I uncovered the error while working on a client's SharePoint site and figuring out why a certain page always caused their computer to freeze up. The most amazing part of this exercise has been analyzing the traffic trends. This page gets a crazy amount of traffic in Japan and China - I still can't figure…
I don't even bother reporting bugs in IE anymore. They never fix them. Yesterday I ran into errors "String is undefined" when trying to augment String.prototype. Testing for undefined got me "undefined is undefined". Turns out it was a variation of a known issue they deem so unlikely that they won't even bother to fix it. (The issue is this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg622929%28v=VS.85%2... ) If any…
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…
I can say the same but there's a clear gap in how seriously the vendors take it: it's been a long time since I've crashed any browser other than IE. The closest I've come a couple of times was getting Firefox to use enough memory that I killed it rather than waiting for it to page. If you are crashing them as often as you claim, you should be filing security bug reports - every other browser team will respond quickly…
Does stuff like this make any one else think of "I cannot by played on record player X" from Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach?
It shouldn't. The record and record player was an analogy for statements and formal systems of sufficient complexity. This example would be analogous if html/css formed a Turing complete system, and the job of a browser was to decide whether or not the markup for a given page halted. This is just an example of a fixable bug with rejecting what should be obviously invalid input. The corresponding analogy would be if t…
The analogy seems to fit there, enough to make me smile anyway :)