Computer Security Weekly, Aug. 6, 2000

A RISKS-FORUM Digest reader points out an interesting thing. Internet Explorer does a lot of correcting for you. If the Web page you are looking at contains simple errors, such as a backslash instead of a forward slash. Internet Explorer helpfully fixes it. In fact, if you look at the source code for the page, it shows you the code as it *should* be, not as it is. This helpfulness can create a problem if you are looking at your own pages. Any minor mistakes you have made are hidden from you, so you can't find and correct your own mistakes. The moral is fairly obvious: use Netscape when testing your Web pages.

Of course, you will have heard that there is a bug in Netscape's version of Java. You will have heard it, since the media seems to be jumping all over it, as a result of heavy publicity on someone's part. The bug is true, but the bug also seems to be fairly obscure at the moment. There is some debate as to which versions of Netscape are affected. No really detailed reports are yet available.

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