Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Amsterdam and London

I’m back from a week-long trip to Amsterdam and London. There won’t be a report, since words can’t describe any of it. One thing I can say is that I came away with a lot of impressions, which was the whole point of the trip. Despite the minor fuckups, difficulties with navigation, and the fact that we didn’t see many of the things we had planned to, overall it was really cool.

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Bug

Today at work I saw the third (or fourth?) strangest and nastiest bug of my life.

If you send HTML to IE 8.0 via XMLHttpRequest, and that HTML contains a <script> tag on the very first line, the contents of the tag arrive in the browser as several garbage characters (empty squares) when read through the DOM. Fiddler shows that the server is sending everything correctly, and everything is fine in Firefox too.

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