Monks, I must repent. I blamed the browser, but the fault was my own. QA reported to me that after accessing a particular page in Krang a few times IE would get really slow and then crash. This page has a lot of Javascript on it, so I figured it was probably another IE Javascript bug.

Hunt and Thomas' book The Pragmatic Programmer has a section on the general case of this tendency, which they call "select isn't broken". The gist of it is: if there's a bug, it's probably in your code, not the browser, window manager, operating system, or what have you. Not always true, of course, but good to keep in mind.

Excellent book, btw.

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In reply to Re: Don't Blame The Browser by FoxtrotUniform
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