Help! Page won't load with Macintosh/Explorer?
Hello!
I'm not sure where to start tracking this problem down. Here is a quote from an email I received:
"I tested the page, IE hangs while loading the page, Safari works fine
(I'm using the latest of everything - Mac OS X 10.3.2 with Java 1.42). "
Can anyone using a Macintosh confirm this? Any ideas of what causes it and how to work around it? I use Windows XP and Explorer or Mozilla and it comes up fine.
The website is very much under development: http://www.YourVancouver.com.
Thanks!
Peter
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Chroder posted this at 02:33 — 10th March 2004.
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It seems to validate just fine without any major errors (mostly the &'s in the URL's I presume). Maybe your server was down or something? It is a continuous problem?
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pmj7 posted this at 02:49 — 10th March 2004.
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Yes, I've had reports from 2 different people on it. The second tried it on two different days with the same results.
Peter
Suzanne posted this at 03:05 — 10th March 2004.
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Nope, not loading. Actually, it's hanging. I had to Force Quit it.
The code's a mess. Validate, then come back if it's still happening. Check your JavaScript and other bits for validity as well.
Line 128, column 295: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "Tapes"Line 128, column 300: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 129, column 85: character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
Line 129, column 116: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "Tickets"
Line 129, column 123: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 141, column 106: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "cat_id"
Line 141, column 112: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 141, column 112: reference to external entity in attribute value
Line 142, column 134: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "toPage"
Line 142, column 140: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 142, column 140: reference to external entity in attribute value
Line 142, column 143: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "fromPage"
Line 142, column 151: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
Line 142, column 151: reference to external entity in attribute value
These seem to be very problematic errors.
pmj7 posted this at 04:10 — 10th March 2004.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Suzanne. I've replaced the ampersand with the HTML code, which caused nearly all of the errors you listed. There are quite a few errors remaining at the moment, mainly complaints about tags like . I will continue to clean up the code.
Peter
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Suzanne posted this at 13:51 — 10th March 2004.
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Cascading errors are big problems for the validator as well as for some browser configurations -- that's why validating the code for errors (as opposed to purposeful changes that won't validate but also won't break things) is so valuable as a first step.
It takes a very long time to load in Safari, too (I'm on dsl and it takes more than a blip to arrive), but faster than yesterday.
It also *starts* to load in IE now, but then disappears and only the background image is there while it hangs. This is an improvement, I guess. The top row arrives header) but the JavaScript lines under that don't. And now it's totally hung and I have to force quit again. It would seem that the JavaScript or something near it is causing the problem.
pmj7 posted this at 16:01 — 10th March 2004.
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Thanks for checking again, Suzanne.
I've changed the doctype, corrected some errors. One issue that is still reported complaints about this bit of code:
89: document.write("
");
Line 89, column 171: end tag for element "A" which is not open (explain...).
As far as I know, this code is valid. I could break out the into a separate document.write statement. document.write("....<"); document.write("/a> ..."); Any recommendations?
Peter
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Suzanne posted this at 17:03 — 10th March 2004.
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document.write('\\
\<\/a>');
pmj7 posted this at 19:23 — 10th March 2004.
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Thanks!
The page now validates. Does it come up in Explorer running on a Macintosh now?
Peter
Suzanne posted this at 22:24 — 10th March 2004.
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Loads great, quick and no crashing or freezing or hanging.
Validation to the rescue, once again.
pmj7 posted this at 22:38 — 10th March 2004.
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Suzanne to the rescue!!!!!
Thank you, again!
Peter
Chroder posted this at 03:05 — 11th March 2004.
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OK, so what was the problem? lol Was it just the &'s? I thought they were just depreciated, didn't think they caused problems.
I think I'm lost =/
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Suzanne posted this at 03:18 — 11th March 2004.
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It was JavaScript errors predominantly. Validating your JavaScript is important, too.
Test test test test.
Chroder posted this at 03:21 — 11th March 2004.
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Ahhhhhh. Must've skipped over that post
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