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Small IE (crashing) bug thru HTML

Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 12:11 am
by phice
I've just learned about an IE bug, using 1 line of code, that will cause a 'critical error' and close all IE windows.

Link: Bugtraq

Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 5:17 am
by volka
outch

Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 2:04 pm
by jason
Yeah, you have to be careful with that HTML, it can be dangerous. Just as dangerous as receiving email as a text file.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 5:28 am
by patrikG
Tried that code out - IE 6.0. Naturally it crashed, but what amazed me was that now, every time I am starting it, it crashes twice before it runs normally.

HTML is a dangerous snake-pit. :lol:

Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 5:27 pm
by m3mn0n
Damn...

Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 5:52 pm
by volka
question is: What's that special about input-elements so they got their own parser code?

Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 8:23 am
by []InTeR[]
The pulldown element is the nice'st.

It's the only ellement that can be bigger than the browser window.
And if you hava a dhtml, with a div or 'layer' above this pulldown, it stills shows the pulldown.

Nice '<span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>'.