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I don't even bother reporting bugs in IE anymore. They never fix them.

Yesterday I ran into errors "String is undefined" when trying to augment String.prototype. Testing for undefined got me "undefined is undefined". Turns out it was a variation of a known issue they deem so unlikely that they won't even bother to fix it. (The issue is this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg622929%28v=VS.85%2... ) If anyone wants to know the fix: you have to set the innerHTML of the parent element of the iframe to '' before detaching that element from the DOM. That actually stops code inside the iframe from running.

What I also love is the arrogance with which they suggest solutions, like on the page I linked: "If your application uses a programming pattern that is affected by this issue, you may wish to consider not removing the iFrames from the page."



Exception: if the crash is a non-null access violation, please report to MSRC.




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