On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:43:48 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:05:09 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>>> I was able to duplicate exactly what Ron described. >>> Medium news...... >>> It's not a new bug. >>> I tracked it all the way back to the beginning of "search in page". >>> If you get this as an individual mesasage (not in the digest), you'll >>> see from the mailer line in the header that I'm using v1.40;final_beta >>> That's when F7 or / was first enabled for searching in the page. >>> (just crash her a few minutes ago with the procedure outlined by Ron) >> I am not going to spend even 1 more second trying to fix it. >> Over 4 hours is more than enough time to waste on such a STUPID >> person as the one who did THIS !!! > This brings up once again what a well behaved browser should do > when encountering "bonehead blunders" in HTML. I would like to > suggest that crashing and locking up is not good behavior. Given > the nature of the web any browser will encounter "bad HTML" that > does not conform to accepted standards. > What does Explorer or Netscape do something like this? > Crashing doesn't seem like an expedient procedure for Arachne > does it? No, crashing is not good behavior for *any* program. (browser or otherwise) As for what NS or IE do..... I have NS for both Linux and for Win9x But... There is no way to test this exact circumstance on either of these versions of NS because neither of them has the exact same capability as Arachne. Namely... View the SRC of the page and then search through it for a given text. The same applies to IE. IE does not view the SRC of the page directly. It loads the HTML file into notepad and then you can use the notepad search feature to find the desired text. Arachne seems to be unique in that it can view the SRC directly. *AND* search through that SRC for the given text. Now, in defense of Arachne crashing in some (now fewer and fewer), situations where she encounters such STUPID things as 1,108 character long HTML lines........ Have you ever tried to run Doom, Doom2, Quake, etc... after (attempting) to load an add-on .WAD file which contains invalid data ??? If you have, then you would know that exactly the same thing happens. That's right, the program crashes. Sometimes requiring (or even spontaneously causing), a cold reboot. I have a feeling that this same effect would happen with almost any program that we try to load invalid data into. Thank goodness it doesn't happen as often with DOS or Linux programs as it does with Windows programs. <g> Heck, they crash the system even when you load VALID data files. (they even crash when you have not yet loaded a data file but just attempted to start the program) -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
