13 comments to “Site problems in new IE?”

1. Will:
   16 June 2006, on 9:37 am

   Its doing that for me, but I’m using an old version. Its only on the main page; its fine when you just click on an individual post.

2. KC:
   16 June 2006, on 10:23 am

   I’m using the new version and the bar shows up at the bottom on the main page. Everything goes back to normal once I click on a post though.

3. Pablo:
   16 June 2006, on 11:43 am

   I’m having the same problem… I see the links when I click in the comments.

4. King Retard:
   16 June 2006, on 11:57 am

   I am having that issue. I should get Firefox.

   EDIT: I just downloaded it and now the site looks right. Huzzah!

5. BruceH:
   16 June 2006, on 2:22 pm

   Yep, I’m seeing it too. I’ll poke around in the html source and let you know if I find anything.

6. BruceH:
   16 June 2006, on 2:40 pm

   I noticed that the two side bar boxes are divs with the same ID attribute. This is not valid html. Try giving each a different id such as ‘menu1′ and ‘menu2′. Alternatively, you could try using the class attribute instead, or a combination of the two.

   Also, I found at least one instance where attribute values contain quotation marks in the value text. Something like:
   <img src=”something.gif” alt=”hello “world”">

   That type of thing can definitely cause problems.

   One thing you can do is run your html through an html validator. You specify a strict dtd, however your code has errors so browsers will invoke their “quirks” mode when encountering your code instead of the strict mode you may expect. Get your pages to validate and you should see fewer problems.

   W3C HTML Validator

   Alas, I was not able to positively identify your specific problem as I don’t really have the time right now to do extensive testing. Good luck, though.

7. BruceH:
   16 June 2006, on 2:43 pm

   I should add that the W3C validator is not perfect. Use the results from that as a guide, not a bible.

8. Sean:
   16 June 2006, on 2:55 pm

   Folks: for those that are seeing this glitch, did it look fine before and now, after the new Windows update, doesn’t?

9. Ron:
   16 June 2006, on 7:34 pm

   Thanks for the input, folks. The code here is very old, but seemed to work in all the browswers OK until recently. Sean and I are working to do a major overhaul, but this glitch may require a temporary fix. Ack.

10. raindogzilla:
    16 June 2006, on 8:50 pm

    Hey, Dudesicles,

    Just installed my DSL and Firefox and all is right with the world- though I’ve yet to try posting thus. If I had any idea how to help y’all I would but Ned Ludd is my spiritual forefather, blah, blah, blah…

11. Sean:
    16 June 2006, on 10:52 pm

    Congrats, Raindog. Welcome to a new world.

12. Udonman:
    17 June 2006, on 3:36 am

    Its doing it to me to on in explorer only no problems with firefox.

13. Tony:
    19 June 2006, on 11:57 pm

    This problem is often caused, don’t ask me how, by having a link (or linked image) that is particularly long. Sometimes a donation button or similar that uses a long string of characters, or simply a long URL. I had this problem on my site. Removing the long link and it hasn’t happened since.