Re: [IUG] IE6 and blank/white screens

["Rick C. Mason" <rmason2 at capital dot edu>]

Hi Sarah,

I took a very quick look at your page source and two things jump out that might cause issues:

1) There is a mix of html and xhtml in the page, with a html 4.01 doctype.  Most notably there are self closing tags ( <xxx /> ) which are xhtml and could cause some browsers to have problems.

2) There is text in several places that doesn't have tags (like the paragraph <p></p> tag) defining it as such.  Again, this might cause problems in some browsers.

I don't have access to IE6, and cannot confirm if either of these issues is the cause of the display problem.

Run your page against the W3C's validation service ( http://validator.w3.org/ ) to see detail on these issues.  Even if these aren't the cause of your IE6 issue, fixing them will improve your page's structure.

One other suggestion:  I don't know what you can change or what is automagically generated on your page, but I would bring the entire page up to xhtml 1.0 transitional if possible.  I like the page layout, btw... very well organized.   

Hope this helps!

Rick Mason
Acquisitions Assistant
Blackmore Library
Capital University
1 College and Main
Columbus, OH 43209-2394
(614) 236-6353
rmason2 at capital dot edu
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From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Sarah Smith
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:39 PM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: [IUG] IE6 and blank/white screens

We recently rescoped, and we're beta, and I do have a call open (since Feb 7) with no response, so I am hoping someone on the list can help with part of the problem.

In IE6 only, when we go to http://www.saclibrarycatalog.org/search~S51,
the page stays blank/white UNTIL one moves the mouse over the page and it sometimes takes several minutes to load. I seem to recall there being an IE/CSS bug related to this but I have been unsuccessful in googling it. I don't think the problem is in top or bottom logo, since the search results display OK.

Thanks :-)

Sarah Smith
Systems Supervisor, ssmith at saclibrary dot org  
Sacramento Public Library <http://www.saclibrary.org> 
828 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone (916) 264-2892; Fax (916) 264-2959 


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