Style sheets and IE 5.1: WTF!

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dstranathandstranathan
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Hi guys



I would love some feedback here! Check this out:





In OS 9 IE 5.1, or OS X IE 5.x , try this:



Turn on "show style sheets" In your prefs first. The default setting is ON.



Now go here:



<a href="http://right.com/"; target="_blank">http://right.com/</a>;



You have to force-quit IE, right? Page loads 80% and then the "attck of the spinning beach ball of death" approaches.



Now turn OFF "show style sheets" in IE 5.1 and go here again:



<a href="http://right.com/"; target="_blank">http://right.com/</a>;



Works, right? Looks like crap, but it works...





Who is at fault? Microsoft, or the web developer?



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Here is another example:



Set IE's "show style sheets" to ON first...



Go to <a href="http://www.petco.com"; target="_blank">http://www.petco.com</a>;



Click on the "dogs" rollover button on the button bar, its a pop-up ment. Under the "dogs" popup menu, go to "articles" link.



Gotta force-quit IE 5.1 again, right?





Now try it with "show style sheets" = OFF.





Works!





WTF?





I am spending all day long doing nothing but adjusting my companys web broswers so they can see sites! I can't figure out who to blame here!



(OK, I blame ME for using a M$ product!)



IS IE famous for bad handeling of style sheets?

Or are wev designers out there wrecking the Internet?

Or is this a Mac OS issue?



FYI: It also does the same thing in OS X with IE 5.x

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    stroszekstroszek Posts: 801member
    I've never had a problem with IE 5.1 on OS 9 rendering style sheets correctly. In fact, it seems to do a better job than some otehr browsers. When right.com froze up on me, it was when it was trying to load an image (f_off.jpg, i think?) maybe that's where the problem is.
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  • Reply 2 of 6
    rogue27rogue27 Posts: 607member
    Ie 5.1 is only for OS X. 5.0 s for OS 9, right?



    Anyway, IE does display some buggy behavior when displaying style sheets and dhtml. I hope the update they said will eventually come will fix this and other things.
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  • Reply 3 of 6
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by rogue27:

    <strong>Ie 5.1 is only for OS X. 5.0 s for OS 9, right?</strong><hr></blockquote>

    No, the OS9 version is up to 5.1.4 also.



    <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=2904&db=mac"; target="_blank">Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1.4</a>
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  • Reply 4 of 6
    dstranathandstranathan Posts: 1,717member
    Oops, I forgot to mention that I am refering to IE 5.1.4 (which is the most current version, I assume other versions of 5 may result in the same errors though...)



    I understand that it appears to be lagged waiting on a .jpg graphic image, but when style sheets are off, it loads everything just fine. I still think its a style sheet issue!
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  • Reply 5 of 6
    macmediamacmedia Posts: 152member
    [quote]Originally posted by dstranathan:



    Now go here:



    <a href="http://right.com/"; target="_blank">http://right.com/</a>;



    <hr></blockquote>



    This thing has bigger problems than stylesheets or whatever you think is causing the problem. There is a major problem with the Table structure. I would remove each nested table, starting with the deepest one until I got to the base structure - you'll find that something is messed up here and will cause many a browser problem. At the bottom there is a missing &lt;/TD&gt; for instance.



    That's a start.

    Chas
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  • Reply 6 of 6
    cindercinder Posts: 381member
    The web developer is the problem.

    Tons of misplaced or screwy tags.

    (I won't even mention all the nasty 'writeIn' javascript peppered throughout the page)





    Error: end tag for element "TR" which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

    *\tLine 451, column 7:



    &lt;/table&gt;

    ^



    Error: end tag for element "TABLE" which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

    *\tLine 452, column 4:



    &lt;/td&gt;

    ^



    Error: end tag for element "TD" which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

    *\tLine 453, column 28:



    &lt;td width="190" valign="top"&gt;

    ^



    Error: element "TD" not allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within



    Error: end tag for element "TR" which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

    *\tLine 461, column 7:



    &lt;/table&gt;

    ^



    Error: end tag for element "TABLE" which is not open; try removing the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

    *
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