Crash IE 6 with Single Line of HTML Code

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I think Internet Explorer 6 is the only poor browser built ever that has been the subject to the most criticism and swearing. I certainly do not blame the users rather Microsoft itself is the one who should be blamed for this poor coded creation that is just an awesome piece of crap for users and a disaster for those designers who just have to cater this shit so they don't lose the faith of IE 6 users. Here we get another sweet reason to hate this browser once again.

Single Line of Code Kills IE 6

Perhaps there are more than a thousand one-line codes and scripts that can easily crash Internet Explorer 6 down in a matter of seconds but I just got my hands on a single line of HTML that crashes your IE 6 in front of your very eyes. I did know from long that Internet Explorer 6 sucked to hell but never did I know that the browser is weak enough to die before executing a simple mis-coded piece of HTML.

Open, Execute and Boom!

If you don't believe me why don't you just open IE 6 and visit this IE 6 crash page. This page executes the code below automatically:

<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table>

That was cheesy now wasn't it? The code was not-so-proudly discovered by a Japanese Blogger name Hamachiya2 and was publicized on the Internet by Mike. The piece of code is safely and correctly rendered in Firefox, Opera and Safari but is definitely not-so-friendly with IE 6.

Your Choice?

As for me I seriously hate Internet Explorer 6 and below but what is your choice? Do you think the Internet Explorer family can ever make a product version that does not suck at all and proves genuine and stable?

  • I honestly and seriously hate IE as well. I can't stand it, designing a template, testing and having it work fine in FF, Opera and Safari but here comes the surprise, it looks totally crappy in IE .
  • passegua
    I put *{position:relative}
    in IE6 but it doesn crash, it comes like this:
    http://*{position:relative}
  • CristianR Thats exactly what irritates me too. You design a good piece of work that works fine in Firefox and Opera and after 10 days of hard work you find that IE 6 doesn't render it probably.

    That is plain sad :(

    Passedua I am sorry actually you were supposed to create an HTML file with that code and then open that file in IE 6 to see the crash effect.

    I have made and uploaded the IE 6 crash file. Just open it in IE 6 and see the destruction lol.
  • now even css can crash IE. :shock:
  • Hahaha thats the irony we are talking about here. Good one :D
  • Hey! What is the use of this code? :lol:

    I found one use:



    Good to make any friends use Firefox who are stuck with IE showing them that IE is bad by pasting this code and crashing there IE~ :)

  • I love Firefox :-) :-D
  • Rishi lol thats one awesome and very evil use :D

    FreeStuffHome Everyone loves firefox :P
  • Flush Except me because I Love my GF, not Firefox :D
    Nice Post but didn't got it properly so I will ask you on MSN later :)
  • That's a funny one :D Damn IE. :P
  • IE6 sucks big time. Developers nightmare :D . I love mozilla firefox . Great browser with awsome extention. But i think IE7 has come upto some level . I never see the same CSS misbehaving in IE7 as it was in IE6. But still .. what so ever. Mozilla is best for me :).
    And guess what , as rishi metioned , I made two of my collegue shift to Firefox after sending this link in IM ... hehehehe
  • I've liked ie7 a lot since release. I've used firefox from 1.0-2.0 and i dont like it as much anymore. it crashes a lot and the talkback thing opens. it seemed much much better in it's 1.0 days. rss on ie7 is a godsend also.I love it alot. Live bookmarks on firefox are annoying and lame, sadly. Maybe 3.0 will change the suckiness and ill use it again, but for now ill always be an ie user since its improvement with 7.
  • Keshav
    If you hate someone, and want to irritate him, just ask him or her to make that crash page their home page in ie! LOL!
    He or she will get a lesson.
    What do you say?lol!
  • lol I say Bingo! The best way to annoy some Geek is to ask him to use IE :P and thats a very real fact :D
  • Well i did a website that does just that. I'm so glad that people are starting to upgrade or change their browser. http://crashie.ajaxmasters.com
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