On 31-May-07 18:46:35, Barrys linux mail wrote:
(Ted Harding) wrote:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/suttonfen/index.asp
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Works ok for me using ubuntu 7.04 Barry
Curioser and curioser! Following the various responses and finally Barry's above, I thought I'd have another look in case there's been an update which changed things. So I entered the above URL as before, and then clicked on the "A wonderful site for future generations to enjoy" as before, -- and got a black screen as before! But I noticed that my browser window was a tad wider than it should be (I run a 1280x816 virtual screen in a 1024x768 screen, and the browser geometry is set to 1024x768 so it just fits on the real screen). This time, the right-hand side of the browser was a few pixels off to the right. So I used the mouse to move the right-hand border back where it should be. Lo and Behold!! Suddenly the black screen vanished and I had the nice web page I should have got in the first place. Testing the same idea again, I then clicked on the "Back" button to get the original web page (above URL). Just as before, I got a black screen. So I did the same: use the mouse to wiggle the right-hand edge of the browser window. And Lo and Behold again! The first window displayed as it should. SO there's an interaction between moving between web-pages on that sight, slight geometry changes in the browser window, and whether or not you see a black page or the page you should see. This got me looking into the page source, and I see that it starts off with some functions which have to do with screen size: // CHECK FOR IE SCREEN SIZE var screenCookie = readCookie('wide'); if (screenCookie == null) { // COOKIE NOT THERE - DOES THE VERSION OF IE KNOW ABOUT SCREEN WIDTH if (screen.width) { // IF SO, IS SCREEN OVER 800 WIDE? [....] // ADJUST LAYOUT if (largeScreen == true) { document.write('<style type="text/css">#wrapper {width: 900px};[...] and so on. It looks as though my Firefox may be tripping over some IE snares... For those who asked: Red Hat 9 Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Extensions: None listed under Tools --> Extensions Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 31-May-07 Time: 20:38:18 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------