>> it's a public nuisance to post such examples -- I mean a working example, as opposed to an inert code listing.
> I am sorry, but I found the code behind it interesting so posted it.
You should have posted a listing, not a working copy. That would have been the civilized, non-destructive thing to do.
> If you were smart enough, you could have accessed the html behind the page easily.
I did. But if you were smart enough, you would have done that and avoided performing an unscheduled test of the less technically skilled visitors' browsers ability to handle broken code.
> My point being, browsers should be able to recover from such code.
Why not set your car on fire? A modern car should be able to tolerate the flames, right? Where's your sense of adventure?
You just aren't thinking. This is a public forum visited by people representing all levels of skill.
like this: view-source:http://fiddle.jshell.net/n3Wa3/show/light/
OR
http://jsfiddle.net/zalun/n3Wa3/embedded/html/
My point being, browsers should be able to recover from such code. What if some site's ad code has this in it. It shouldn't be able to crash my entire browser.