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As opposed to the denial of service style bugs like an empty src element in an img tag?
by chris_wot 8y ago
As opposed to the denial of service style bugs like an empty src element in an img tag?
- ljm 8y agoThey're perfectly capable of introducing other DOS bugs that don't depend on bad markup.
- dgoldstein0 8y agoThis 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.