Hello Harold,

Friday, Friday, January 21, 2000, you wrote:

HMH> Any idea why the problem would show up in Netscape Navigator but not
HMH> Internet Explorer? This reminds me of a recent problem where I visited my
HMH> aunt's web site on AOL.  Netscape crashed as the page was loaded.  I
HMH> tried it both at home and work, and they both (Netscape 4.7) crashed.
HMH> Pretty tricky HTML to do that!

HMH> Harold

Umm, I'm not that sure, if it is "tricky" to crash a browser :) There
are many bugs, discovered for all new versions of both IE and NN,
sorry that I haven't got my bookmarks page at hand, to drop you some
urls ...
I remember something that "works" with older versions (ie3, nn2,
opera2 I think): try to load a gif, or link to a page with name
com1/com2/aux/$clock -- these are device driver names, inherited from
TADD (The Auld DOS Days :). when the browser tries to load, say ,
"com1.gif", it actually reads garbage from the com port, and ususally
crashes.