System hangs when viewing site
OK, this is driving me crazy! Can anyone help? The site I maintain is:
http://members.aol.com/jproscenium
Whenever (at least very frequently) I view the site using AOL and try scrolling using the scroll bar, my system freezes. The only way to recover is to power down the system and power back up. This has NEVER happened using Netscape. However, I have never experienced this problem using AOL on any other site except mine. Is there something I'm doing with my HTML or Javascript that could be causing this. Other people have told me that they have also experienced system hangs when visiting my site using AOL. Thanks.
Bob
soundtank posted this at 17:36 — 16th April 2000.
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it's probably just the version of AOL that your using..Nothing happened when I went to your site - I'm using AOL 5.0
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Justin S posted this at 18:02 — 16th April 2000.
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Nope, nothing here either. I'm not using AOL though, I'm using a dial-up with IE5. AOL blows, get another provider.
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Bob posted this at 18:59 — 16th April 2000.
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Soundtank & Justin,
Thanks for your replies. Can't be the version of AOL alone - I'm using 5.0 also. Any other ideas? Thanks again.
Bob
Anonymous posted this at 21:31 — 16th April 2000.
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Without defending AOL (I’m defiantly a anti-AOLer) AOL uses the same basic engine as IE. So I wouldn’t be so quick to blame it on AOL. Try reinstalling AOL, maybe some of your files somehow got corrupted. Or as suggested get a better ISP
I’ve also heard enough stories about AOL 5 to highly suggest going back to 4 if your going to use AOL.
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Bob posted this at 23:19 — 16th April 2000.
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Adam,
Thanks. I can try reinstallng AOL, but I still don't understand why this only happens on my site. I can get it to freeze every time, but I can not get it to freeze with any other site I've tried. That's why I'm worried that there could be a problem with my code. Thanks.
Bob
Justin S posted this at 23:31 — 16th April 2000.
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No, I'm not blaming the browser in AOL, I'm blaming the whole program + probably the computer is a little slow?!?
Also- check out your source code. Very messy! You have all these tags with nothing in them (IE: <xmp>???). I'd rewrite the code.
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Bob posted this at 01:27 — 17th April 2000.
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Justin,
Sorry for my messy code, but I'm still pretty new to all this. Obviously, if I knew how to write the code more efficiently, I would. The <xmp> tags are to skip lines where I want to. I couldn't figure out how else to do it. I tried <br> and <p>, but could not get multiple lines between other text. I'm sure there's a better way, I just don't know how. If you can let me know, I'll gladly rewrite my code. Thanks.
bob
John Pollock posted this at 01:54 — 17th April 2000.
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Try:
<P>
<P>
etc.
Lloyd Hassell posted this at 04:15 — 17th April 2000.
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I suggest you run your code through an HTML validator. I don't use them myself but I am sure someone here would know where to find one.
Bob posted this at 11:43 — 17th April 2000.
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John, Lloyd,
Thanks for the help. John, just for my own education...If I want to skip say 5 lines, why is
<p>
<p>
<p>
<p>
<p>
better than
<xmp>
</xmp>
Thanks again,
Bob
Lloyd Hassell posted this at 02:24 — 25th April 2000.
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If you want to skip lines I would suggest
<pre>
</pre>
OR
<p>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</p>
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