A Bug..... Perhaps?

[Guest]

Hi All

 

I have noticed that my site www.Livingstyle.co.uk is failing to load the complete right column on most page visits. It usually leaves out the information box and the who's online box. and often but by no means always I get </ at the top of the column. As this does not happen all the time infact only perhaps 1:20 I feel that this is an unrelated problem but still worthy of a mention in case.

 

In addition if the page has failed to load the boxes correctlyand you were to hit the refresh key it will load the logo head of the document but fail to load the rest of the page you are on... and eventually crash the browser.

 

Now I have tried this using Internet Explorer Version 6 and it happens virtually every time

 

Opera only once so far

 

Mozzilla about 30% of the time

 

I therefor don't think that it is browser specific (IE)as has been suggested in other threads from people suffering similar problems.

 

I have attached some threads of similar problems posted in the forums that I don't think have been adequately resolved

 

Thread 1

 

Thread 2

 

Thread 3

 

My best guess is that there is a problem with parsing the page when the who's online contribution is utilised, though this may be well of base. As I said it is a guess another guess is that this maybe HTML specific. either from the contribution or it could be HTML used in the PHP creation of the original MS2 release.

 

When you read the other threads it appears that this problem is not isolated to the column right coding so I haven't included mine here to save space. and to keep the waters clear.

 

As far as server etc I have a very reliable ISP and I have no other problems with the other sights that I host on my Virtual Server.

 

I am using PHP 4 and Apache on a linux box and I have full access to the configurtation of it so I am as certain as I can be that the problem is not with the server etc.

 

I would be interested in others trying the site and letting me know what there experiences are with the column right and refresh in various browsers.

 

I know about the Marquee only working in IE but this is not related to the current problem.

 

Has any one any suggestions or is this a non specific bug?

[Chris Dunning]

If you think the problem is that particular box, try commenting out the include statement in the column_right file (put // at the start of the line) for a bit and see if that fixes the problem. This will at least narrow down your problem so you can get a better idea of what's going on.

 

</ looks like the beginning of an html tag - it seems like the script is perhaps stopping there for some reason, a timeout perhaps? Does your page have a lot of extra additions to it that could be taking time to load?

 

Anyway, I don't have any great ideas, I'm just trying to help you narrow down the problem.