Check out
Sam Ruby’s
latest... but only in a browser. His use of <plaintext>,
which turns out to be
an obsolete HTML
tag (I’d never seen it, and I’ve been doing this shit since 1994), has
exploded
Bloglines (no biggie, Bloglines is basically unmaintained these days) and
demolished PlanetApache (scroll down a
bit).
PlanetJava has silent data loss, and
del.icio.us
is barfing angle-brackets.
It’s only a matter of hours before the Web Implodes, Wall Street Crashes,
and mobs of looters take apart downtown Topeka, Kansas. Stock up on dried
foods.
[Update: Lauren points out
that <plaintext> is defined, but deprecated, in the
HTML RFC from
1995.
How many more scary forgotten tags are lurking in the codebase, I wonder?]
[Update: You might want to go back to Sam’s post and read
the
comments, which are instructive and entertaining.]
