Remote Code Execution
Anyone who knows me know that I absolutely love Internet Explorer 6. It's just a nice solid piece of software. I have a few comments on IE6.
1. IE6 has single handedly ruined the Internet
Web developers are constantly having to cut back on their designs to account for IE6. No alpha channel on PNGs? No accurate CSS support? You can create beautiful pages all day long, but only some of them are going to work in IE6. Most developers just give up on the bells and whistles and settle for something semi-attractive but that will work in IE.
If you ever wonder why websites aren't cooler than they are, this is it.
2. Pablo Picasso is the creator of IE6
A painting by Pablo Picasso
A website rendered by IE6.
The best part is that all those hacks you made to get your site to work in IE6 now break it again in IE7!
3. Remote what?
A was running a script on my virtual machine in Windows. It was using IE6 as it's engine and it landed on some random page as part of it's process. The page immediately opened up 3 or 4 shell windows (command prompt) and started executing code. It installed who-knows-what all over my machine.
I view this as a feature. It's a good way to remind me that I need to reinstall Windows - or it serves as a reminder of why I avoid Windows at all costs.
[...] properly view the
[...] properly view the second image of the two above, you are going to need a modern browser that is not bound by only being able to display basic image types, or turns sites into a Picasso [...]
What else am I going to use,
What else am I going to use, though? Firefox? I mean, sure I'm using it now... but what about when it breaks? I mean, it hasn't ever happened, but you could imagine if it did. I mean, it would probably restore my previous session including every different tab I was looking at... but at what cost? I mean, I know it's free and all, but you have to go out of your way to download it! I mean, that's hard, right?
Your love for IE is
Your love for IE is contagious. I feel an urge to use it. The internet is out of hand anyway, and should be destroyed more, right?
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