> -----Original Message----- > From: dzpat_private [mailto:dzpat_private] > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 3:27 PM > > Please remember - the computation _terminated_ with a behaviour > normally considered to be some sort of bug. Considered by whom? Someone who couldn't tell the difference between a long filename buffer overrun bug (which we said we'd fixed) and a self-referential object tag, so essentially accused us of lying about fixing the bug, and who couldn't write clearly anyway? As a result, I just didn't care about the precise problem reported, and was commenting on the problem of "bad" web pages in general. If we started examining web pages to analyze them and catch "bad" ones before we executed them, it is indeed true we could catch many bad ones. However, every one we don't catch would be a "YET ANOTHER MAJOR MS SECURITY HOLE", and the theory tells us we can't catch all of them. So, we're just not going to start down that path. If a site has pages that cause your browser to restart, don't go there again; set your Zones to stop you if you really want. No serious site has any interest in allowing such pages to exist on its site, and about all you lose when the browser restarts is the history list, since it's about as stateless as you can get in an app (except for its config data, which isn't lost anyway).
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