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Make IE 6 Crash

This is absolutely NOT recommended for use in any sort of “real” website scenario. It’s just kind of funny and interesting.

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

22 Responses

  1. Euan says:

    Very Good I enjoyed it. Might Use it in conditional statement.

  2. Batfan says:

    Care to tell us what the result is? Or do we have to guess

  3. Jay says:

    Who on earth still uses IE6? If you look at its number of *known* bugs + vulnerabilities, you will have more joy :)

  4. Khalil says:

    Most of the people in our country (Pakistan) uses IE 6 and I heard some Indian saying the same for his country.

  5. Eliazer says:

    can you please crash all IE versions :(

    • Chocksy says:

      IE8 is better i noticed that i don’t have to make big changes for it as i used to do with IE7.
      I hope it will get more W3C compliant and it will be all better with IE9.

  6. Adrian says:

    All the websites need this code somewhere, this will be an update to internet world and people will be forced to install an update to view the website!

  7. cindy says:

    Many large companies still use IE6 because from what I understand MS charges them to update. Can you believe that! What fools.

    Designers for corporate have to design for IE 6,7,8, Firefox : ), Safari, Chrome, it is a pain, only Firefox works as expected.

    • SarmenHB says:

      wow what a bunch of idiots. they have the Operating System update cd mixed with patch updates. Those are the companies that are shutting down in this economy for not opening their minds.

    • E M says:

      As a Microsoft employee, I can assure you this is not the case. We encourage all of our customers to stay up-to-date as much as they can.

      • Dor says:

        You TRAITOR! Nah, I’m just joking :)

        It’s painful for me at my workplace to see the administration using IE6 and not letting me update it for them (“No no, I don’t wanna change anything!”).

  8. Hawke says:

    I love how this also crashes the Adobe BrowserLab. It freaked out.

    Tomorrow, I may go to the local public library and set this page as the homepage for every computer in there.

  9. Ant says:

    Ha-ha, I remember when used position:relative to some big block and it caused IE6 always to crash.

  10. Diptanshu says:

    How about crashing all IE until MS gets it’s act together? What’s with IE8 with the stupid ‘compatibility mode’?

    Increases the amount of work (and code) for those of us who build websites.

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