Hating the back button, and exception abuse
Saw these snippets on the site of a company that provides “industry leading solutions”. Firstly a snippet that was in the <head> of every page, intentionally breaking the back button:
<script>window.history.forward(1);</script>
And there was also this function which abuses exceptions for control flow (I’m not too sure why):
function crossFrameScripting()
{
// TT#157678 - Prevent Frame usage. (esamson)
//if (AgentUtils.isIE)
//{
try
{
if(self.document.domain.toString() != top.document.domain.toString())
{
throw "Access is denied";
}
}
catch(exc)
{
if (top != self)
{
top.location=self.location;
}
}
//}
// /TT#157678 - Prevent Frame usage. (esamson)
}