Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

Can't get IE to display some website correctly

2 views
Skip to first unread message

tshad

unread,
Nov 7, 2009, 12:45:55 AM11/7/09
to
I am having a problem running a website on my laptop. It displays fine.

It seems to not be applying the css.

www.jquery.com looks fine at my office but at home it is just a bunch of
words with not styling at all.

I saw this in IE6 and then upgraded to IE7 and still have the same problem.
IE in both places are the same versions.

What could cause this to happen?

Other websites look fine.

Thanks,

Tom


PA Bear [MS MVP]

unread,
Nov 7, 2009, 2:48:53 AM11/7/09
to

tshad

unread,
Nov 7, 2009, 11:40:00 AM11/7/09
to

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23rYrR$3XKHA...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Guess again!
>
Not sure what you mean by that.

As far as IE-specific.

It doesn't seem to be specific to IE as Firefox on my system has the same
result.

Tom

Daave

unread,
Nov 7, 2009, 12:35:55 PM11/7/09
to
tshad wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23rYrR$3XKHA...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Guess again!
>>
> Not sure what you mean by that.

He probably meant that the hypothesis that CSS is not validated is
incorrect.

Still there are apparently 27 errors, which could explain why some
browsers are having problems with that page.

> As far as IE-specific.
>
> It doesn't seem to be specific to IE as Firefox on my system has the
> same result.

Very possibly the case because of the 27 errors.

PA Bear [MS MVP]

unread,
Nov 7, 2009, 9:17:25 PM11/7/09
to
[crosspost to WinXP General]

> Your pointing me to the website didn't help me at all. It just mentioned
> that there may have been lots of errors on the page.

There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them for I
to display the page correctly.

References/More Help:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740476.aspx

Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (free, stand-alone visual
debugging tool for IE6, IE7, and IE8)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677

Expression Web SuperPreview Release Notes
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Web_SuperPreviewReleaseNotes.aspx

If you need further assistance, post here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/category/iedevelopment/
--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com

tshad wrote:
> Scuse me.
>
> Your post pointed me to that web site, which is why I posted it here.
>
>> IE-specific newsgroup:
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
>
>
> Your pointing me to the website didn't help me at all. It just mentioned
> that there may have been lots of errors on the page.
>
> The fact that it found a bunch of errors on the site doesn't explain why
> the
> page works on 2 of my desktops at work and not on my laptop or my desktop
> at
> home - even after I upgrade to the latest of both IE and FireFox.
>
>> Asked/Answered in WinXP General hours ago:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/2c195dc02090e3b4/
>>
>> If you must make identical posts to multiple newsgroups, please
>> cross-post
>> one (1) message to all of them. Thank you.
>> Multiposting vs Crossposting:
>> http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>
>> tshad wrote:
>>> I am having a problem running a website on my laptop. I have this
>>> problem
>>> on both IE and FireFox - both the newest versions.

Michel Doucet

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 1:45:40 AM11/8/09
to
Bonjour/soir, le Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:17:25 -0500, *PA Bear [MS MVP]* a
caressé son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:

> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them
> for I to display the page correctly.

CSS errors ?
"The document located at <http://jquery.com/> was successfully checked
as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question identified
itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully performed a formal
validation using an SGML, HTML5 and/or XML Parser(s) (depending on the
markup language used)."

This website works very well with ff on Linux

--
Utiliser le butineur, le courriéleur, le lecteur de nouvelles
et le SE avec lesquels vous vous sentez le plus sécurisé ... ;)
Posted via www.individual.net
http://mdoucet.wordpress.com/

tshad

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 4:19:31 AM11/8/09
to

"Daave" <da...@example.com> wrote in message
news:O7szDD9X...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> tshad wrote:
>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23rYrR$3XKHA...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Guess again!
>>>
>> Not sure what you mean by that.
>
> He probably meant that the hypothesis that CSS is not validated is
> incorrect.
>
> Still there are apparently 27 errors, which could explain why some
> browsers are having problems with that page.

Except that these 27 errors would be the same on the machines at work with
the same browser that work fine.

Tom

tshad

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 4:21:35 AM11/8/09
to

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:u4W8wpB...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> [crosspost to WinXP General]
>
>> Your pointing me to the website didn't help me at all. It just mentioned
>> that there may have been lots of errors on the page.
>
> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them for
> I to display the page correctly.

This isn't my page??

I can't correct them.

Also, these same errors would be there at work as well but the pages work
fine there.

Why would they work at work and not on my laptop with the SAME browser?

Thanks,

Tom

Paul

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 5:57:39 AM11/8/09
to
tshad wrote:

>
> This isn't my page??
>
> I can't correct them.
>
> Also, these same errors would be there at work as well but the pages work
> fine there.
>
> Why would they work at work and not on my laptop with the SAME browser?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom

You can use Wireshark, to collect a trace of all packets sent
and received by your attempt to render that page. Once you
stop the capture, you can save the trace for later. The trace
file (perhaps a .pcap) can then be reloaded later for analysis.
You may spot differences in what the client and server
do in each case. It could be a difference in a client
security setting, a difference in the client identification
information sent to the server, or some other difference
between the two setups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark

Collect traces from both machines and then compare them.

Paul

Averelll

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 7:56:51 AM11/8/09
to
Michel Doucet a écrit :

> Bonjour/soir, le Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:17:25 -0500, *PA Bear [MS MVP]* a
> caressé son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
>
>> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them
>> for I to display the page correctly.
>
> CSS errors ?
> "The document located at <http://jquery.com/> was successfully checked
> as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question identified
> itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully performed a formal
> validation using an SGML, HTML5 and/or XML Parser(s) (depending on the
> markup language used)."
>
> This website works very well with ff on Linux
>
Vous n'avez pas honte de vous tripoter la nouille en public monsieur le
troll international aux oreilles d'âne ?

Robert Aldwinckle

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 8:17:23 AM11/8/09
to

"Paul" <nos...@needed.com> wrote in message news:hd6865$tef$1...@aioe.org...

> You can use Wireshark, to collect a trace of all packets sent
> and received by your attempt to render that page.

Or, easier, provided the site tolerates a proxy, Fiddler2.


> Collect traces from both machines and then compare them.

Ditto. And Fiddler's capture allows the sessions to be replayed,
so potentially you could replay a session from a problem computer
on a non-problem computer.


---


Michel Doucet

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 8:20:43 AM11/8/09
to
Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:56:51 +0100, *Averelll* a caressé son

clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:

>>> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them
>>> for I to display the page correctly.
>>
>> CSS errors ?
>> "The document located at <http://jquery.com/> was successfully checked
>> as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question
>> identified itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully
>> performed a formal validation using an SGML, HTML5 and/or XML Parser(s)
>> (depending on the markup language used)."
>>
>> This website works very well with ff on Linux
>>
> Vous n'avez pas honte de vous tripoter la nouille en public monsieur le
> troll international aux oreilles d'âne ?

Some *technical* advices to solve this problem which is an IE issue ?

Averelll

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 9:03:57 AM11/8/09
to
Michel Doucet a écrit :

> Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:56:51 +0100, *Averelll* a caressé son
> clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
>
>>>> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them
>>>> for I to display the page correctly.
>>> CSS errors ?
>>> "The document located at <http://jquery.com/> was successfully checked
>>> as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question
>>> identified itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully
>>> performed a formal validation using an SGML, HTML5 and/or XML Parser(s)
>>> (depending on the markup language used)."
>>>
>>> This website works very well with ff on Linux
>>>
>> Vous n'avez pas honte de vous tripoter la nouille en public monsieur le
>> troll international aux oreilles d'âne ?
>
> Some *technical* advices to solve this problem which is an IE issue ?
>
>
Depuis des années vous croyez encore que votre tripotage de nouille
impudique est un réponse technique monsieur le troll incurable.

Michel Doucet

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 9:29:48 AM11/8/09
to
Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:57 +0100, *Averelll* a caressé son

Coud you be so polite to answer in the language of this newsgroup ? ...
so the readers will be able to see what idiot you are !

Averelll

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 9:51:01 AM11/8/09
to
Michel Doucet a écrit :
> Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:57 +0100, *Averelll* a caressé son
> clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
>
>> Michel Doucet a écrit :
>>> Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:56:51 +0100, *Averelll* a caressé
>>> son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
>>>
>>>>>> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct
>>>>>> them for I to display the page correctly.
>>>>> CSS errors ?
>>>>> "The document located at <http://jquery.com/> was successfully
>>>>> checked as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question
>>>>> identified itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully
>>>>> performed a formal validation using an SGML, HTML5 and/or XML
>>>>> Parser(s) (depending on the markup language used)."
>>>>>
>>>>> This website works very well with ff on Linux
>>>>>
>>>> Vous n'avez pas honte de vous tripoter la nouille en public monsieur
>>>> le troll international aux oreilles d'âne ?
>>> Some *technical* advices to solve this problem which is an IE issue ?
>>>
>>>
>> Depuis des années vous croyez encore que votre tripotage de nouille
>> impudique est un réponse technique monsieur le troll incurable.
>
> Coud you be so polite to answer in the language of this newsgroup ? ...
> so the readers will be able to see what idiot you are !
>
Pourriez-vous avoir la politesse de cesser de troller partout où vous
polluez ?

Daave

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 11:09:45 AM11/8/09
to
tshad wrote:
> "Daave" <da...@example.com> wrote in message
> news:O7szDD9X...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Still there are apparently 27 errors, which could explain why some


>> browsers are having problems with that page.
>
> Except that these 27 errors would be the same on the machines at work
> with the same browser that work fine.

Browsers rarely display Web pages identically. Some are more forgiving
than others with respect to errors.

If the browsers are the same, then settings, updates/patches, and/or
plug-ins/add-ons would be a factor.


Daave

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 11:11:06 AM11/8/09
to
Michel Doucet wrote:
> Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:57 +0100, *Averelll* a
> caress� son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
>
>> Michel Doucet a �crit :

>>> Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:56:51 +0100, *Averelll* a
>>> caress� son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:

>>>
>>>>>> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct
>>>>>> them for I to display the page correctly.
>>>>> CSS errors ?
>>>>> "The document located at <http://jquery.com/> was successfully
>>>>> checked as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in
>>>>> question identified itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we
>>>>> successfully performed a formal validation using an SGML, HTML5
>>>>> and/or XML Parser(s) (depending on the markup language used)."
>>>>>
>>>>> This website works very well with ff on Linux
>>>>>
>>>> Vous n'avez pas honte de vous tripoter la nouille en public
>>>> monsieur le troll international aux oreilles d'�ne ?

>>>
>>> Some *technical* advices to solve this problem which is an IE issue
>>> ?
>>>
>>>
>> Depuis des ann�es vous croyez encore que votre tripotage de nouille
>> impudique est un r�ponse technique monsieur le troll incurable.

>
> Coud you be so polite to answer in the language of this newsgroup ?
> ... so the readers will be able to see what idiot you are !

ROFL

Looks like you have your own personal troll, Michael, ;-)


Michel Doucet

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 11:30:33 AM11/8/09
to
Bonjour/soir, le Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:11:06 -0500, *Daave* a caressé son

clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:

>>> Depuis des années vous croyez encore que votre tripotage de nouille
>>> impudique est un réponse technique monsieur le troll incurable.


>>
>> Coud you be so polite to answer in the language of this newsgroup ? ...
>> so the readers will be able to see what idiot you are !
>
> ROFL
>
> Looks like you have your own personal troll, Michael, ;-)

Yeah I know "he" is like a morpion which sticks to the testicles (french
proverb) ;)

PA Bear [MS MVP]

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 3:18:33 PM11/8/09
to
Then you may not be able to do anything about it.

tshad

unread,
Nov 8, 2009, 10:04:15 PM11/8/09
to

"Daave" <da...@example.com> wrote in message
news:Ow$Fm3IYK...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
In my case, IE6 and IE7 give me the same problem (same version and updates).
I don't have anything special in them.

Also, on the machine it works on, it takes about 1 or 2 seconds to display.

On the machines it doesn't apply the styles on, it takes about 30 seconds.

Tom

Dan

unread,
Nov 11, 2009, 11:06:20 AM11/11/09
to

"tshad" <t...@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:ewBsZTFY...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u4W8wpB...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> [crosspost to WinXP General]
>>
>>> Your pointing me to the website didn't help me at all. It just
>>> mentioned
>>> that there may have been lots of errors on the page.
>>
>> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them
>> for I to display the page correctly.
>
> This isn't my page??
>
> I can't correct them.
>
> Also, these same errors would be there at work as well but the pages work
> fine there.
>
> Why would they work at work and not on my laptop with the SAME browser?
>

Have you got something on your laptop blocking access to
http://static.jquery.com ? The CSS files for jquery.com are loaded from
static.jquery.com, and if that site is blocked then the laptop won't load
the CSS files and it look awful.

--
Dan

Dan

unread,
Nov 11, 2009, 11:09:34 AM11/11/09
to

"Michel Doucet" <mi...@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:7ln7okF...@mid.individual.net...


> Bonjour/soir, le Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:17:25 -0500, *PA Bear [MS MVP]* a
> caressé son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
>
>> There *are* /lots/ of CSS errors on the page: You need to correct them
>> for I to display the page correctly.
>
> CSS errors ?
> "The document located at <http://jquery.com/> was successfully checked
> as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question identified
> itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully performed a formal
> validation using an SGML, HTML5 and/or XML Parser(s) (depending on the
> markup language used)."
>
> This website works very well with ff on Linux

So you only validated the XHTML then, not the CSS.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjquery.com%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en

27 errors and 183 warnings in the CSS according to the W3C CSS validation
service.

Looks like most of the errors are workarounds for browser handling
(specifically Mozilla extensions, which are for Firefox).

--
Dan

0 new messages