Comments on: IE crash on just plain HTML

By: mike

mike — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:57:59 +0000

Dave,

yes, it is supposed to be good old href, but it looks like wordpress likes to play with html tags in posts :/ So yes, xhref ius actually href.

By: Dave Teare

Dave Teare — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:32:15 +0000

What is the xref attribute in the anchor? I think you meant href, no?

I even looked up my trusty html spec to make sure I wasn't smoking something, and afaict, there is no xref.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:47:32 +0000

Florian, first you should keep your tone down and learn to be grown up (or pretend to be).

The page validates as valid HTML, and I have my reasons not to post the whole code here. You have idea how to post "a page" which consists of html, css, and accomaning javascript, with html code being not the biggest part of it? Or you want just HTML and think you will be able to identify the source of the problem by looking at 1/3 of the whole picture? Oh well.. I guess Javascript doesn't have anything to do with the problem so it will be 50% of the code..

Anyway, as I said, HTML is valid, and the point is that if you or somebody else will have similar problems, they can may be remember this blog and fix the problem spending less time and nerve cells than it would take without reading this blog post.

As for hits… well I have to admit that it's nice to have lots of hits and being helpful to somebody (hopefully). But I have no real reason to "jump" for them. Any google ads on this site or any hidden counters? I guess you won't find any because there are not.

So now, thanks for comments and I do hope you did have learned something from this blog entry. And feel free to bury me on digg anytime, brother :)

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:53:03 +0000

Including a demonstratable and repeatable flaw is something usefull. We could look out for it, avoid it's usage and M$ could do something about it (unlikely, I know).

All hail random ranting!

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:49:24 +0000

Well yeah, "It doesn't make sense to include the whole html here…"

Well yeah I tried what you did in plain html and IE didn't crash for me, I guess you've got either absolutely no clue of HTML or you've got an extremely fucked up IE, or both.

Move on, just a smacktard jumping for hits. Bugreports happen elsewhere.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:55:50 +0000

Ben, yeah it is that site ;) Today's the deadline and the problem appeared just yesterday at about 22:00 (some new content was added). Man I hate these late-minute bugs. AND THE BLOODY PAGE VALIDATES! (i mean.. except for ALTs that is ;)

By: mike

mike — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:53:17 +0000

I think it doesn't make much sense to include the whole rendered page here. But it worth mention that the page actually validates against HTML 4.01 Transitional which it states in the header. Actually, both crashing and non-crashing versions validate. So it definitely is a problem with IE. Although of course even completely correctly coded page still isn't guaranteed to work in IE :) That why we all like this browser, right? ;) I mean.. lots of exciting moments just before the project deadline

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:15:13 +0000

Ouch. I've been having fun with classic IE/Mozilla CSS compatability problems myself.
I think I can guess what project you were working on, seeing as it's "girls.html" ;)

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:12:45 +0000

You know there's two cruical thing missing about your bug report.

* The complete *rendered* html (preferably reduced to the tiniest nonsensical form that still crashes for you)