Benutzer:Schinken/CSS-IE-Crash

IE 8/9 crashes with simple css

A combination of a filter-gradient and text-transform specified on a :filter-letter pseudo selector crashes the IE7/8 reproducable

.trwurst {
   filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#f8f5ed', endColorstr='#e8e5db',GradientType=0);
}

.trwurst:first-letter {
   text-transform: uppercase;
}

applied on a simple html element:

   <div class="trwurst">hi</div>

causes ie 7/8 to crash

DEMO

A demo can be found here: http://schinken.github.io/experiments/iecrash/