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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Asynchronous Loops in the Browser?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:49:35 +0100
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:
>>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:
>>>>> Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>>>> |>> while(1);
>>>>>> […]
>>>> […] but the behaviour (for the 'while') described by Stefan Ram is also
>>>> a possibility.  It's what I see in the three Linux browsers I tested.
>>>
>>> Which browsers have you tested under which "Linux"?
>> 
>> epiphany-browser 3.30.1-1ubuntu2 (AKA "Web")
>> chromium-browser 73.0.3683.86-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
>
> Note that these are not Mozilla-based.

Why?

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> Regardless, my warning was appropriate and necessary.

I was commenting on your telling Stefan Ram he was wrong about the what
he saw happen.

-- 
Ben.