Valid Style making IE Crash?!?

[Ben Rogers]

Hello all, I've recently made a new scheme for project epsilon on my local host, and it only has 1 flaw in IE6: It crashes it.

The scheme technically works perfectly in IE6 and FF 0.9, but when you scroll on it in IE6, the browser will crash, and I have no idea why.

Page: http://projep.no-ip.com:81/projep/
Stylesheet: http://projep.no-ip.com:81/test/css/layout/style.css
Human readable version of stylesheet: http://projep.no-ip.com:81/test/php/css.php?x=/test/css/layout/style

[MstrBob]

Doesn't crash for me...

[Ben Rogers]

Really? You viewed the first link in IE, and you could scroll and navigate and normally?

[philaweb]

Originally posted by omega
You viewed the first link in IE, and you could scroll and navigate and normally?

IE6 on XP crashes!

[Ben Rogers]

Yes, I know. (See original post, lol) That's my point. I need to find out why... it's something in the stylesheet.

[MstrBob]

Eh, well, IE 6 on ME doesn't crash. It's a first! IE works!

[Ben Rogers]

Damn. Must be an XP thing. Not that that makes it any better.

[MstrBob]

Well, if it makes you feel better, though IE doesn't crash, there is really, really choppy scrolling.

[Ben Rogers]

The reason it has choppy scrolling is probably the same as the reason why it crashes on XP.

[davidbrent]

Your site link wont connect

[Ben Rogers]

Well, I'm online now, so it should work. I would put this up on an online (off my own comp), but I don't want to pollute my blog's account (trying to keep only neccesary files in there), and I don't want to sift through the many files of my T35 host.

[Neczy]

i could see your site for a second and then got the error report thing, heh.

Looks nice in FireFox though :p

[Jona]

Originally posted by omega
The reason it has choppy scrolling is probably the same as the reason why it crashes on XP.

Disable the link styles in your CSS and see what happens.

[Ben Rogers]

*eye twitch* So noone knows why a valid style crashes IE? There's no CSS3, no proprietary code, and no hacks...

Jona- I hadn't read your post when I posted.... the 'reply to topic' tab had been open a while.

[Ben Rogers]

uhm... okay, i put the entire links section in comments: it worked. then i removed the comments, and it still worked. now it works fine... but nothing was changed... wtf is going on?!?

[Jona]

IE is buggy like that. It probably was improperly importing the stylesheet. Try clearing your cache, then see if it works.

[Ben Rogers]

Heh. Well... that's weird. It still looks screwed up in IE, and since first-letter isn't working and the h2s look screwed up, the effect, IMO, is lost. Oh well. Guess it'll never see the light of day. God, I hate Internet Explorer.

[Jona]

Originally posted by omega
God, I hate Internet Explorer.

You're fired! :p
So what are you going to do with the design now? It shouldn't be hard to fix up for IE, and it's not worth throwing away...

[Ben Rogers]

No, don't fire me! Please, mister, please! *breaks down sobbing*

If first-letter was supported by IE6, then this layout could be saved. I actually started the layout beleiving it was, but... no such luck. Unfortunately, that is one of the main components of the design (makes header text stand out and enhanced the boxed look) and can't be accomplished with a span easily, as I don't beleive in adding hooks that are semantically worthless. I REALLY wish IE supported more pseudo classes... it would be great for subtle designs, y'know?

[Jona]

Start with something basic that works in both browsers. Once you have what looks acceptible for IE, add advanced techniques for Mozilla/Opera.

[Ben Rogers]

Hey, hey, don't be trying to give me design tips now. <eyes type="glaring" /> Anwyays, it does basically work in IE, it's just the first-letter pseudo that doesn't. o.O