HTML5 weakness allows data dump on PCs

[Beverleyh]

Gigabytes of junk data could be dumped onto PCs via a loophole in web code, a developer has found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21628622

[traq]

lol.

The article needs to be more specific, though: it's not a "loophole" or "bug" in HTML5; it's poor implementation on the part of browser vendors (nice to see Fx ahead of the game again, though!).

[FrickenTrevor]

HTML 5 may be all new and fancy, but it is kind of up to the vendors to make it work. Other than that, good find Beverleyh and thanks for sharing

[traq]

actually, it's more-or-less the other way 'round: vendors made it work, so the WHATWG wrote a new and fancy spec.