crashing IE6

self-referential object tags

[aevea]

I don't know if this is peculiar to my operating system, but I was just playing around with the object tag on an "index.htm" and

<object title="I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." width="151" height="264" data="index.htm"><object data="images/warhol52.gif" type="image/gif">OBJECTED!</object></object>

brought ie down. Opera filled the recursion with a whitespace and firebird was seamless. It validated to xhtml 1.0 strict, but I don't have any experience with object tags -- seems like it shouldn't be legal.

Has anyone seen this before?

Adam

[tedster]

Markup can always be valid and still dysfunctional.

Self-reference, or an infinitely recursive loop, simply is a problem most all of the time. In fact, it's not the markup itself that is the problem here, it's the value assigned to the attribute. But it is not the purpose of a mark-up validator to discover that kind of thing - it can't possibly be.

<aside>
Self-refering attention in a human being can also get trapped
in a loop like that and sort of "crash" our native consciousness
into various dysfunctional states. The self-referential
"commands" are allowed in the human system, but they're not very
practical when they loop recursively.

There's more than one reason that too much attention on
yourself is a bad idea.
</aside>