Recently I was helping my colleague to fix a strange bug in his Javascript. The bug behave like this:
- Open the web page in IE.
- After everything are loaded (HTML, images, scripts, …), click on address bar and press enter
- IE crashed
When I try to identify the bug, I’ve created a simple page that can reproduce the bug.
crash.html
<div id="panel"></div> <a href="#" onclick="loadScript(); return false;">Load script</a> <script> var n = 0; var callback = function() { n++; var panel = document.getElementById("panel"); panel.innerHTML = "loadScript called " + n + " times."; var node = document.getElementById("testid"); node.parentNode.removeChild(node); } var loadScript = function() { var node = document.createElement("script"); node.src="crash.js"; node.id = "testid"; document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(node); } window.onload = loadScript; </script>





