Alphecca

I have problems reading parts of your site and I do have XP. I can read the first few posts then it is blank or has bits and pieces of script down the screen and then at some point I get the full text back for the remainder of the screen. Very strange.

I too have problems reading Alphecca with IE7 and Windows XP. I have Firefox 2.0.0.2 installed also and I have no problem reading your blog. In IE7, parts of posts are missing, leaving large white gaps and I cannot click on any links. Your site does work great in Firefox 2.0.0.2 however.

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Can any of you tell me where the problem starts? Which post? Maybe there's something in there or possibly my version of Movable Type (2.61) is creating obsolete code for the posts.

I'm Mac based so don't have access to Windows and IE 7.

I've looked at my site with my regular browser, Firefox 2.0.0.1 and an older version, 1.x something, both fine. Netscape 7.1 and Safari are fine.

Feel free to look at my source code and offer suggestion. . .

On second thought, maybe the problem is with IE 7.

Jeff,

Tried your site using IE 7, Firefox and Opera. To no great surprise the only problem was with IE 7.

Remember Firefox is what IE wants to be when it grows up.

7 and XP here. No probs, b'wana!

Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX

I had the same problem as Yuri, and I only use Firefox. In the past few months, this is the first edition of your blog in which there is any graphics visible. Whatever you did, it is working now.

Well. . .I haven't done anything as yet. Weird!

They don't call it Internet Exploder for nothing. I've been using Firefox for about a year or so, no problems reading anything that I can recall.

IE7 and Vista -- so I can't just uninstall IE7 -- here, and problems with your page.

IE6 and win 2000 - No problem. IE7 and XP - No link access from the script page and today the blank started with line 2 of the Hit Job story. IE7 and Vista - No link access from the script and today the blank started in paragraph #4 of the update in yesterdays "Trouble" column. IE7 doesn't like you Jeff.

I did a View Source from both FF 2.0 and IE7, and it appears to me that Firefox is being more foregiving than IE. Here are some of the errors I got:

1. No closing HTML tag at the end.
2. No closing Body tag at the end.
3. A lot of tags are intermixed instead of following a strict hierarchy. For instance, some blockquotes are opened inside paragraphs, but the closing tag for the blockquote is after the closing tag for the paragraph. By the way, for safety's sake, don't put blockquotes inside paragraph tags, although the other way around is okay. You can see examples of this in the Bloomberg Pushes Pelosi on Gun Control post, among others.

Those were the major elements I found in the page source. Those intermixed tags are apparently giving IE fits.

Wow, Boyd, don't know how the close tags got lost but I just did that.

I can do nothing about the paragraph tags -- that is, Movable Type (hereafter MT) inserts those every time I enter a carriage return and there's no way to turn that off.

The only solution to making newspaper quotes stand out is if I stop using the blockquote and italic tags. MT doesn't allow (in this version I'm using) the inclusion of CSS elements directly into the post entry form or I could design (in my dreams) some sort of new class for quotes.

About the only thing that I could do is make all quotes all within a span tag, which the editor allows, but I don't know how to do that -- where it indents both margins and changes the font at the same time to indicate that you -- the reader -- are reading someone else's words, not mine.

Suggestions? I mean, besides everyone switching to Firefox?

One solution we found was to click on the archive link. The page then comes up just fine in IE7 with XP. Weird.

Jeff, do you hit the carriage return (okay, I'm an old typewriter-based fart like you) before you put in the blockquote? That might make a difference with the paragraph tags.

Can't... Stop... Myself...

Everyone should switch to Firefox!

Sorry Jeff, it had to be done.

Well, I agree, Magus, but that notwithstanding, Moveable Type is pumping out some junk and Firefox is able to figure it out, where IE can't. So it appears to me that this isn't so much a problem with IE as it is with MT.

My AOL 9.0 on Windows Vista leaves the middle of the page blank. Your site and a couple of others have the same problem. First article or two are fine and then--zilch.

Works fine on FireFox however.

(On the other hand, my MAC PowerBook G4 with AOL 7 has no problem either. Go figure.)

FireFox on Linux, no problems.

IE is only at version 7?? I used versions 5 and 6 on my old Win98 box, before I went pure-Linux.