> From: jeffrey miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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.
Read it again. I had no problems at all with that many open. > 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. The BSOD is caused by browser integration. > > I have absolutely no use for JavaScript, spawn of evil that it is. > > Hardly. It is the spawn of satan, the anticrist of the software world. I havent used java for 5 years, and I havan't missed it. I also haven't seen a banner in 5 years. Coincidence?
