> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of The Fool
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:26 AM
> To: Brin-L
> Subject: Re: Superior OS? (Was: Re: GeoCities Strikes Again)
>
>
> > From: jeffrey miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >
> > > ----
> > > What causes 90% of all blue-screen problems in win9x? IE
> > > integration, Javascript, and activeX controls on web pages.
> >
> > No offense, but are you sure about JavaSCRIPT being the problem? I
> code
> > that stuff for a living, and don't know of any js crud that causes
> > this stuff.
>
> Yep. In win9x before I turned off java, internet explorer
> crashed anytime, all the time. Then I turned it off, and lo
> and behold, I could more have than 50 different IE windows
> open at the same time for weeks at a time. Then I moved to
> NT. I've crashed IE in NT twice (this did not crash NT), and
> I ussually at any given time have 3 to 10 windows open,
> sometimes as many as a hundred. In addition to whatever else
> I am doing at the time.
Mm, well, open that many windows of just about anything and you'll cause
that.
I don't disagree that js can crash a browser.. which /can/ (but often
doesn't) lead to a BSOD. I disagree with your claim that its the cause
of 90% of all BSOD.
> I have absolutely no use for JavaScript, spawn of evil that it is.
Hardly.
-j-
