Re: Pure html DOS although some version require minor user interaction ( highlighting/minimising )

["Davide Del Vecchio" <dante () alighieri org>]

Konqueror 3.1.3 causes high cpu usage until the page has been loaded,
but the system continue working quite good. 

d. 

Thomas Rogg writes: 

> am 18.10.2003 6:29 Uhr schrieb John unter mccann () lexicon net: 
>
> > Basicly this simple employees a HEAP of <big> tags and only requires a
> > single closing tag. Someone versions on view will die others require
> > something to activate rendering I assume this could be done via a java
> > script. 
> >
> > Proof of concept 
> >
> > http://www.lexicon.net/mccann/t.html 
> >
> > Mozilla doesn't crash some version my experience high cpu usage while
> > rendering also the layout will be stuffed but it is also a problem with
> > overflowing font sizes.
> > Opera untested.
> > Other untested.
> Tried it twice, crashed IE 5.0 (didn't know I still had it on my hard drive)
> under Mac OS 9 both times and took the whole system with it (OS 9 doesn't
> have any memory protection etc). 
>
> Nice work. 
>
> -- Thomas 
>
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