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To: pillbox_girl

"All that means is you are a good software engineer. Bully for you."


No, that wasn't the message at all. What it means is that as much as I thrash and trash IE, I haven't found problems with it crashing. Software engineers stress computer systems beyond anything a user will ever do. For me to beat the hell out of IE and have it not crash tends to make me wonder about such claims of IE crashing all the time.


51 posted on 06/01/2005 8:26:16 PM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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To: shellshocked
What it means is that as much as I thrash and trash IE, I haven't found problems with it crashing.

Then you're either really trying to stretch the boundaries of credibility, or you're not really trying. Granted, I'm not a computer specialist, but have you tried the browser equivalent of "while(1) fork();"?

A while back, I hired a recent grad (the kid of a friend of a family member - big mistake) to redo my company's website. He had all sorts of flash fancyness and java goodies. The website looked great, but it wouldn't render correctly on anything other than explorer. More relevantly, it didn't run for more than a few mouse clicks before locking up explorer and windows with it (on every windows machine we tried). Surely if that kid could figure out ways of hosing explorer, you can too.

Eventually, my cad guy had to strip out the site and redo it (much more simply) from scratch. Now it's not fancy (little more than an online business card), but it works (and works on mozilla, netscape, and firefox as well).

64 posted on 06/02/2005 2:41:07 PM PDT by pillbox_girl
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