Disappearing Text

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-04-24 10:30am

Err...I'm not sure where to put this post, so I'll just stick it here. This might have been said already, but there's something odd on this page. If you put the mouse over the pic of the diagram that looks like this,

, you will notice that the text on the right of it appears. Keep moving it on and off and it disappears and reappears. Hope I'm not bringing up something four billion years old, which is already known.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-24 10:34am

Huh?

Must be Internet Explorer or whatever browser you're using, because it's not supposed to do that.

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2003-04-24 11:52am

It's not an IE problem, since it's not happening to me.

Might be something to do with your browser's CSS interpreter.

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-04-24 12:02pm

I see the problem occur in IE6.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-04-24 12:18pm

I'm using IE 6 as well.

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2003-04-24 12:49pm

Hmm... I'm using IE 5.5 without incident.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-04-24 01:10pm

Wierd. It happens on my browser. Check and see if it does it to this pic as well:

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-04-24 01:21pm

Hah! It does the exact same thing!

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-24 03:30pm

Wonderful, we've found another IE6 bug.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2003-04-24 03:49pm

HAH! Mozilla owns all you silly IE users!

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-04-24 05:41pm

Just to confirm, happens to me too on IE6.

Also, the Star Wars Myth page isn't available by clicking on "myths", you have to go to "site index"...

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-04-24 05:43pm

Erm, never mind, changed since last time I went there. (/me remembers to check something BEFORE he talks about it next time

)

Bartman · Post by **Bartman** » 2003-04-24 06:02pm

Mitth'raw'nuruodo wrote:Just to confirm, happens to me too on IE6.

Hmm... I'm using IE6 and I see nothing of the sort. Of course I turn off most 'features' whenever I install IE. So i don't think you have uncovered a bug, just a 'feature' of some sort.

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-04-24 06:49pm

Will this happen to me. I have IE5 and haven't gottne the upgrade?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-04-25 09:26am

Crayz9000 wrote:Wonderful, we've found another IE6 bug.

Remember - Microsoft products are usually deliberately badly designed. The constant annoying "Program has committed an illegal action" messages you get as a Windows User have probably turned more people away from Microsoft than all of MacIntosh's ad campaigns together.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-04-27 12:07pm

IE 6: Yes
Mozilla 1.3: No

So yes it's IE related.

Sidious · Post by **Sidious** » 2003-04-28 08:29pm

Happening here too.

IE 6.0

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-28 08:48pm

Phoenix 0.5+ (nightly) is properly rendering
IE6 is not properly rendering

Changing the code block

Code: Select all

<p style="margin-left:10em;margin-right:10em;">
<a href="Con5.jpg">
<img SRC="Con5a.jpg" ALT="T-5" BORDER=0 height=36 width=80 align=left></a>
At this point, Rebel tacticians state the Death Star
will clear Yavin in 5 minutes (click to enlarge)

<br clear=left><a href="Con0.jpg">
<img SRC="Con0a.jpg" ALT="T-0" BORDER=0 height=36 width=80 align=left></a>

The Death Star in firing position, 5 minutes later
(click to enlarge)
<br clear=left>

to

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<div style="margin-left:10em;margin-right:10em;">
<a href="Con5.jpg">
<img SRC="Con5a.jpg" ALT="T-5" BORDER=0 height=36 width=80 align=left></a>
At this point, Rebel tacticians state the Death Star
will clear Yavin in 5 minutes (click to enlarge)

<br clear=left><a href="Con0.jpg">
<img SRC="Con0a.jpg" ALT="T-0" BORDER=0 height=36 width=80 align=left></a>

The Death Star in firing position, 5 minutes later
(click to enlarge)
<br clear=left>
</div>

It appears that something isn't properly cascading with his style sheets, as when I rename the file (I mirrored the relevant page via IE6) the problem goes away. Also, when I do this:

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<p style="margin-left:10em;margin-right:10em;">
<a href="Con5.jpg">
<img SRC="Con5a.jpg" ALT="T-5" BORDER=0 height=36 width=80 align=left></a>
At this point, Rebel tacticians state the Death Star
will clear Yavin in 5 minutes (click to enlarge)</p><br clear=left>
<p style="margin-left:10em;margin-right:10em;"><a href="Con0.jpg">
<img SRC="Con0a.jpg" ALT="T-0" BORDER=0 height=36 width=80 align=left></a>
The Death Star in firing position, 5 minutes later
(click to enlarge)
</p><br clear=left>

It works as well.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-28 09:04pm

Okay, I've narrowed down the issue, and it seems like IE6 barfs when it encounters that first <BR CLEAR=LEFT> command (see earlier post).

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-04-28 09:22pm

Ha! Old IE works!

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-29 12:18am

Hmmmmm...

W3C Validator results

I don't think I've seen so many errors in my life.

Netscape 4.x was never very good at generating HTML, anyway.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-29 12:20am

Hmm again...

With the doctype modifier fixed, the W3C validator displays only one error.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-04-29 01:08am

Crayz9000 wrote:Hmmmmm...

W3C Validator results

I don't think I've seen so many errors in my life.

Netscape 4.x was never very good at generating HTML, anyway.

Can you tell that page was made a long time ago? For some reason, the lowercase HTML tags really bug me.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-29 01:10am

Opera 6 and 7 show it ok