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On Friday 06 September 2002 17:51, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:43:47PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> > Travis Bemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I think that a good compromise would be to put up a warning page
> > > where the user has to type "I do know that Micro$oft Internet
> > > Explorer is an insecure piece of shit" as specified by the page into
> > > a text item in a form (the $ would be mandatory) and then press a
> > > button to actually use fproxy, to keep people from simply clicking
> > > through without paying real serious attention to the warning. :)
> >
> > Your rage against MS's stance is perfectly understandable, but let's
> > try a more clear minded approach. Otherwise we will lose more respect
> > than we'll gain.
> >
> > First, it would be nice if (rather than checking the browser version)
> > the bug could be tested directly. This could work: Serve "check.txt"
> > declared text/plain in a small frame, non-scrolling frame. This file
> > will contain a lot of linefeeds, and finally
> >
> > <html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh"
> > content="0;URL=/bug_warning.html">
>
> I'd prefer for it to start immediately as HTML, in case any browser only
> treats text as HTML if it sees HTML in the first n lines or n chars.
> Something like
> <html><head>....
> <!--
> If you are seeing this, your browser is safe.
This may lead people to a false sense of security. We don't know what bugs
may be yet undetected, so we really can't ensure that the browser is actually
safe.
- --
. . . one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
their C programs.
--Robert Firth
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