There was definitely a solid period much longer than a day where Javascript was allowed, and was used to "kick" people via DM.
It was usually just a link with an onhover that popped up an "enter the password" prompt, followed by an infinite loop of alerts if you didn't get the password within five tries. For some reason no one ever just deleted the password prompt and did an immediate alert-loop. We all just c/p'd the same password code, and just changed the password.
I did once get hit by some malformed JS that crashed Netscape as soon as you received it. It was the only instant-kill I ever saw. I think literally everything else was onhover, and almost always "five tries to guess the password". (I eventually learned to view source in another window.)
I was almost entirely in TimesSquare, so it could be that spread to one of the other chats immediately led to the "switch to Java", which was indeed a very sad day.
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There was definitely a solid period much longer than a day where Javascript was allowed, and was used to "kick" people via DM.
It was usually just a link with an onhover that popped up an "enter the password" prompt, followed by an infinite loop of alerts if you didn't get the password within five tries. For some reason no one ever just deleted the password prompt and did an immediate alert-loop. We all just c/p'd the same password code, and just changed the password.
I did once get hit by some malformed JS that crashed Netscape as soon as you received it. It was the only instant-kill I ever saw. I think literally everything else was onhover, and almost always "five tries to guess the password". (I eventually learned to view source in another window.)
I was almost entirely in TimesSquare, so it could be that spread to one of the other chats immediately led to the "switch to Java", which was indeed a very sad day.