Browser Display Problem

Only Meta Tags Displaying on IE6 Webpage

[charlesleo]

I was just at a very important client and had to leave so I only have partial information. They are using a flavor of IE6 on a non-XP Windows system.

When they browse from my main page at:

<snip>

and click on 'gallery' to go to one of my other pages, all that shows up is the META tags. Nothing else. It was very embarassing. I'm kinda puzzled as to what it could be. Security settings? Is it related to my CSS? I realize that my code isn't the cleanest in the world, but I've checked other comps and sites - this is the first time I came across this problem. Any ideas? I'd greatly appreciate it as I'm completely lost now...

[edited by: engine at 9:58 am (utc) on April 1, 2005]
[edit reason] No urls, thanks. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[Saltminer]

I tried it using both IE6 and Firefox on a Win2K system, and it looks good to me. I tried all the menu options, roamed around for a bit, everything looks and works the same with either browser.

It is a nice looking site, great job, but I'm afraid I can't help much. Everything was working correctly when I tried it.

[charlesleo]

Thanks man. I appreciate it. That was my impression too - I couldn't figure out why the heck it wouldnt show up on another Windows OS (IE6.) I think it'll work fine in over 95% of all relatively modern browsers.

The embarassing part is that this group was a creative agency - they asked, 'should we expect other clients to see this site?' to which I had no immediate answer... It made me look pretty bad.

[bruhaha]

Have you validated the code for this page?

There appear to be several errors, at least according to strict XHTML standards. They seem to be things browsers are generally forgiving about, but still might cause some problems.

I ran the page through CSE HTML and here are the main things it pointed out as errors (or warnings):
1)"All open tags, end tags, and tag attributes must be in lowercase because this is an XHTML document." [4 instances of uppercase]
2) "In XHTML documents, style and script content must not be in a comment because it technically means that the browser will see it as a comment and not as actual style or script content...."
3)"This line [lines 110 & 111 --in the body tag] contains part of a quoted string that spans more than one line (not recommended) or a quoted string (like an attribute value) that is missing the start or end quotation mark. You should check this line for improperly quoted attribute values that may be missing a start or end quotation mark."
4)"The "link" tag must be closed by adding a slash to the end of the tag (<link ... /> ) or by a separate end tag (</link> )."

Again, no guarantee that fixing these will solve your problems, but certainly no harm in doing so!

[charlesleo]

Thanks Bruhaha for pointing that out to me. I just ran the trial version of that tool - it was so handy! That should be all fixed now but I have a feeling the site still wouldn't work on their comps. Anyone else have any ideas?