[thelist] NN 4.78 chokes on page

Jackson Yee jyee at vt.edu
Mon Jul 15 18:45:22 CDT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Milot-Bradford" <RMilot-Bradford at nsca-lift.org>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 18:55
Subject: [thelist] NN 4.78 chokes on page


> Hi. I decided to try rebuilding one of my pages
> (www.nsca-lift.org/newdefault.asp) as xhtml 1 strict. I can get it to
> validate, and it looks fine in most of the browsers I have tested. However,
> it causes NN 4.78 to crash. Any ideas?

Unfortunately, Netscape 4.x is filled with numerous rendering bugs, and if an
official list exists, it would probably take up a few dozen pages to list and
describe the possibilities to make it crash.  You can find some examples at

http://www.macedition.com/cb/nn4crashers/
http://www.attrition.org/security/denial/w/ns4x-all.dos.html
http://people.a2000.nl/kunst/nscrash/netscape_crash.html
http://www.nic.fi/~tapio1/Teaching/Netscape.php3

Your best bet would be to selectively comment out portions of your page and
see if you can isolate the problem to a specific segment of HTML.  My debugger
shows that Netscape 4.08 crashes as it's rendering the end of a table, so
perhaps that would give you a place to start from.  If that doesn't work, try
building the page from the ground up and see how it renders.

For the reasons of crashes and horrible CSS support, Netscape 4.x is the first
browser that I test my pages with nowadays.  It's usually quite easy to make
pages look nice in the more modern browsers after you get it to look decent in
Netscape 4.x.  8-)

Regards,
Jackson Yee
jyee at vt.edu
http://www.jacksonyee.com/




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