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


From: Thomas Rogg <thomas () outcast-media com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:22:30 +0200

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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