MSIE passes the test because Microsoft used this test

MSIE passes the test because Microsoft used this test

Posted Nov 3, 2004 23:45 UTC (Wed) by turpie (guest, #5219)
In reply to: MSIE passes the test because Microsoft used this test by pdc
Parent article: How to kill a web browser

Or,
They obviously take pride in having a parser that DOESN'T CRASH with arbitrarily lousy HTML.
There is no point excusing the open source developers for these bugs, because that is what they are bugs. In this case Microsoft has done a better job. If you dont wont your browser to attempt to display invalid HTML thats fine, but it shouldn't crash. It's quite possible that these bugs could be security holes.

The correct thing to do here is admit our software has these problems, work out why it has happened, and implement changes so it can be prevented from happening in the future.

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