Re: strange browser issue

Question

so, since this isn't actually my site, and just a site i'm
trying to
view, it sounds like there's probably nothing i can do about
it.
i see that Alan suggested it may be my version of Firefox
that isn't
handling the compressed data format, but i'm having the same
problem in
IE. the only browser on my computer that i can view that site
in is Safari.
but here's a new development: it occurred to me to see if i
can visit a
different page on the site, so i open it in Safari, browsed
to a
different page and copied the address, then pasted it into
Firefox. i
can see this page just fine! but if click through the site,
it appears
as though the only pages i can see are the pages in the
alphabetical
list of artists, and then i can see the artist and song pages
if i click
on those. if i click on artists, albums, or lyrics links, i
get the same
blank page. very odd.
should i just contact the administrator for the site and tell
them about
the problem?
it's not my website, so i'm not going to worry about it
anymore. i was
just concerned that there was a problem with my computer, but
that
doesn't appear to be the case. or, if it is, nobody knows
what the
problem is! oh well. it's just one site. i'll worry about it
more if it
happens with more sites than this one.
thanks for all the input!
Gary White wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:53:22 -0700, "courtney (n h c)"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> i had not! but i just did, and it didn't help.
>>
>
> There is something very strange going on there. When
attempting to
> diagnose a problem such as yours, the first thing I
normally do is
> validate the code for the page. The validation on your
page is truly
> strange:
>
>
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&ss=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lyricsfreak.com%2F
>
> You'll note that it says no doctype and no encoding and,
if you look
> lower on the page where it says, "Below is the source
input I used for
> this validation:" the source code is completely empty.
If I view the
> page in Firefox and view source, I see the source,
including the
> supposedly missing doctype and encoding.
>
> The first thing that comes to mind here is that some
strange character
> has found its way into your source code. One possible
way of
> troubleshooting is to view the page in a browser, copy
all of the source
> code and paste it into a basic text editor, like
notepad. Then copy
> everything in notepad and paste it back into
Dreamweaver. Save the page,
> with a different file name, upload it, and attempt to
validate it.
>
> I'm guessing here that the page is dynamically generated
from a
> database. If that works, you'll need to figure out
whether the problem
> is with your source code or your database content. The
first thing I'd
> do then is to comment out all of the database stuff, so
the page is
> served without the database content. See if that
validates. If it does,
> the problem is with the content in the database. If not,
the problem is
> in the source.
>
> Gary
>

Answer 1

Hi there, thanks for your response. I'm in Firefox, but note the links I sent will work because the object/embed tag has been shrunk. If I were to modify the size to 1014x740 it wont work, the Allow button would be unclickable.  Take a look here: http://tinyurl.com/2756pye I've setup a version that is broken for you to test with. Note that I've included wmode="window" and still having the same issue.