page loads blank on some computers

Revo

my page is basically all html cept for php insertion code for my news script. It loads fine on my computer(Iexplore6), my parents comp(IExplore6), and at school(Iexplore...). At my friends house it won't load on his mac and other friends tell me that it also loads blank.

is this a brower issue? if so can it be fixed or are they just outa luck?

Thanks in Advance
-Revo

dalecosp

Hmm, if you code it right, and make it standards-compliant, you shouldn't really have troubles of this nature.

The problem is, generally, that too many of us work using IE, and it isn't standards-compliant. I'd be interested in knowing if your page works in Mozilla or Opera on Win32.

This is hitting pretty close to home, actually; I have a quiz script up on the web that is pretty useful for its niche. I'm getting ready to move it from a "feature" on a low traffic site to a site that is basically dedicated to the subject. Now, when I wrote it (long time ago it seems) I was developing on Win32 with IE; nowdays I use Mozilla and Opera on FreeBSD, so I can have a very "local" development server (I'm typing on it at the moment ;-)

Anyway, on non-IE browsers I am told, even when I submit the correct answer, that my answer was wrong! "Sorry, the correct answer is "foo"; you said "foo"! I am thinking that using GET in a non-standard way can work on IE, but not on real browsers... if/when I get time to track it down, maybe we can discuss it further....

mmilano

definately not a php problem. it is client side in your html or css.

try commenting out your style sheet to isolate the problem. it very well may be there.

if not, then comment out different pieces of the html to isolate what is causing the mac blank page.

probably difficult if you don't have a mac.

anyway, once you isolate where the problem is, experiment with different ways to re-write that section.

try validating your html here: http://validator.w3.org/

it is quite interesting and will really help you write good html.