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by frumplestlatz 423 days ago
It crashes (“a problem repeatedly occurred”) a few seconds after loading everything on my device (also iOS Safari).

I love tikz, but lightweight it is not; it’s not a huge surprise it takes a few seconds to render.

No idea what’s causing the crash, though.

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Well iOS Safari is in general buggy and tends to display the "a problem repeatedly occurred" message on many other slightly heavy web pages. This web page shouldn't be blamed for causing Safari to crash.
Nobody is assigning blame, we don’t know the root cause.

I could just as easily say that Safari shouldn’t be blamed for a buggy website, but I’d be overreaching just as much as you just did.

By definition buggy websites that crash the browser are bugs in the browser.

It may have security implications, or it may not. It might just be an innocent case of someone using assertions instead of proper error reporting. Nevertheless it's a bug in the browser.

It doesn’t crash, but tells me there is a problem. To me,this seems like a safe way to deal with buggy websites.
Safari will terminate a page for using excess resources with the same message.
So? Still Safari's problem for not displaying a proper error message.
Sounds like you just dislike Safari. Doesn’t seem to be much help here.