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2nd March 2010 - Link Blog

Internet Explorer: Global Variables, and Stack Overflows. An extremely subtle IE bug—if your recursive JavaScript function is attached directly to the window (global) object, IE won’t let you call it recursively more than 12 times.

Posted 2nd March 2010 at 9:21 am

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