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i am conscious of this post not being a hey look at my site post. but its not really something i can chop down and paste a bit of code sadly.
problem is that on certain pages on this site (which validates happiily on all pages) (it seems to be the main section pages) the rendering stops before the page is complete.
an F5 always sorts it as far as i can see, and i dont think that it is the peekaboo bug , but maybe someone could take a look and maybe explain why. FF never seems to have any problems.
i am coming to the conclusion that it may be a hosting problem, as the little IE spinny globe, does in fact stop spinning before the page is complete.
i am also aware that alot of the images are way too big, and maybe this is affecting the problem, and i am in the process of optimising all of these again.
the pages are made up of a container, a header. the rest of the page is split into 2 halves each with a containing floated holding div - 1 for the main content, and the other for the rhs content(semi navigation type thing).
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again sorry tedster if this breaches TOS, but i thought that was more about NOT getting free spidering by posting a url on here.
anyhow, if anyone could help, or has any suggestions as to why this is happening it would be incredibly helpful.
tia
nat
[edited by: BlobFisk at 11:37 am (utc) on April 14, 2005]
Also check your sever logs - right when you create an incident. If your site is very busy, copy an offending page to a new address, then type in that new url so you can easily find the incident in the log.
Funny you should bring this issue up right now - I have the mirror-image problem to yours: a site where the pages never fully load on Firefox and Opera but do fine on IE. But it's being served on IIS 6 - so it sounds like some Microsoft thing, but I just can't zero in on it and it's making me crazy. I often see this on .asp pages in Opera, but these pages are not asp, although being served from IIS.
This kind of thing is maddening, and I agree that it's usually not the html, especially after you've validated the mark-up and css.
i will attempt to describe what the pages are doing for me.
on all the pages, there are little grey tabs for headings, and when a page goes squiffy, it renders the top half ok, and strangely the RHS floated bit, which really wierds me out, as , as far as the HTML is concerned the LHS (main part of the page) is above the RHS in the markup.
but what you see when it goes wrong , is some of the tabs from the bottom half of the LHS of the page sitting on the black background (page background) all by themselves..
if anyone is still interested, i have taken a screen dump of this when it happens.. cant post it on here, but sticky me and ill mail it to you..
tia
grrr, maddening.
once again - many thanks for the time you sepnt on this one..
nat
when i view source the whole page appears to be there..
OK may have fixed this with a change to the css
had been haveing the LHS and RHS containers floated left and right
changed them both to a position :absolute; style
i cant get it to break now.
yay - i hope
cheers,
nat
