full-disclosure - EEYE: Temporary workaround for IE createTextRange vulnerab

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Date: Tue Mar 28 17:49:26 2006
From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (bkfsec)
Subject: EEYE: Temporary workaround for
	IE	createTextRange vulnerab

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

>
>(I didn't even *mention* the cost of beating the snot out of the web developers
>who coded IE-specific extensions into a corporate webpage, did I?   It's
>usually not the actual install cost that gets you, it's the ripple effect that
>providing the support generates...)
>
>  
>
You're ultimately right about the cost, but the problem is that... well, 
what you've got there is bad practice that *must* be corrected anyway.

You'd better believe that when I find web developers being 
browser-reliant I raise a fuss.  It doesn't always generate results but 
it does get the message across.

          -bkfsec