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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by chris_wot on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @04:50PM (#19801516)
As opposed to the denial of service style bugs like an empty src element in an img tag?
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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by ljm on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:34PM (#19802347)
They're perfectly capable of introducing other DOS bugs that don't depend on bad markup.
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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by dgoldstein0 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:43AM (#19805362)
This is a poor argument - just because we can shoot our own feet, doesn't mean we should not try to prevent it from happening by accident.

And it sounds like it wasn't just DOS - also just plain "it doesn't work in ie6" seems the most likely outcome; crashes and DOS that the article describes just sounds like the most egregious cases.

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