[SOLVED] My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE]

mwhiz · 04-06-2008, 06:48 PM

Gday all,

I am working on a website which you can see at http://a1.richard.frih.net/

Unfortunately, when I access my website in IE6, IE6 immediately closes.

It works fine in Firefox and (as far as I know) in IE7. Can anybody shed some light on why this is crashing?

I'm using the JQuery javascript library on my site and a PNG image with the transparency CSS workaround applied to it. I believe it may be a combination of these that is causing my problems, but I'm not sure exactly what it is.

I'd hate for IE6 users not to able to view my site, but If I can't find what is causing the problem, I might not have a choice but to exclude them.

PLEASE HELP!

Cheers,
Richard

**Go The Power** · 04-07-2008, 07:17 AM

Moved to Web design

mwhiz · 04-07-2008, 07:22 AM

But this isnt a web design issue.

The problem here is Internet Explorer.

**Jaxo** · 04-07-2008, 04:27 PM

Hi mwhiz welcome to TSF,

IE6 works just fine until you load your page?

If so, that's probably the reason the post was moved. I don't have IE6 to test on but did some searching around and found that code does exist that can close IE6. Other things like anti-virus and anti-spam could possibly close this browser (although I have never ran into that myself).

So, I would recommend to update your anti's if you haven't lately and run them to see if anything like a virus or spyware could be closing it. The other idea I have is to remove any "advance" html/scripting from your site. See if there is a specific code that is not agreeing with IE6. Kinda like when you have a hardware issue and you take out all components and start from scratch one by one to find out which is causing the problem.

Take your site down to bare bones and slowly build it back up script/code by script/code until IE6 dumps on itself. That's at least what I would do

*Oh, and backup your site just in case something goes wrong!

Good luck! Hope this helps!

**Go The Power** · 04-07-2008, 06:10 PM

I got it working in IE6 but the layout was all over the place. To me it sounds like a problem with the coding not IE.

if you really want I will move back to IE.

mwhiz · 04-07-2008, 06:14 PM

Yeah the layout is all over the place because I haven't been able to test anything in IE because it crashes.

Can you tell me what you did to get it working in IE?

I know it's not a virus or anything because I have tested it on other computeres and they crash too.

It's ok to leave it here though.At least I got a response in this thread.

mwhiz · 04-07-2008, 08:45 PM

Problem solved.

I had some javascript which faded my tag cloud as a hover effect. The background image for my tag cloud was a transparent PNG, which had to have a CSS filter applied to it to make it transparent in IE6. The javascript and the filter did not work well together. If only IE6 supported transparent PNG's in the first place. Nevermind.

Thanks for your help.

**Go The Power** · 04-08-2008, 06:42 PM

thread marked as solved.

04-06-2008, 06:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
mwhiz Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 4 OS: WINXP SP2	[SOLVED] My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] Gday all, I am working on a website which you can see at http://a1.richard.frih.net/ Unfortunately, when I access my website in IE6, IE6 immediately closes. It works fine in Firefox and (as far as I know) in IE7. Can anybody shed some light on why this is crashing? I'm using the JQuery javascript library on my site and a PNG image with the transparency CSS workaround applied to it. I believe it may be a combination of these that is causing my problems, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. I'd hate for IE6 users not to able to view my site, but If I can't find what is causing the problem, I might not have a choice but to exclude them. PLEASE HELP! Cheers, Richard

04-07-2008, 07:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
Go The Power Moderator, Microsoft Support Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Australia Posts: 11,003 OS: Windows XP Home SP2 Blog Entries: 1	Re: My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] Moved to Web design __________________

04-07-2008, 07:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
mwhiz Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 4 OS: WINXP SP2	Re: My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] But this isnt a web design issue. The problem here is Internet Explorer.

04-07-2008, 04:27 PM	#4 (permalink)
Jaxo Design Team Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Deming, NM Posts: 312 OS: XP SP2 & Vista	Re: My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] Hi mwhiz welcome to TSF, IE6 works just fine until you load your page? If so, that's probably the reason the post was moved. I don't have IE6 to test on but did some searching around and found that code does exist that can close IE6. Other things like anti-virus and anti-spam could possibly close this browser (although I have never ran into that myself). So, I would recommend to update your anti's if you haven't lately and run them to see if anything like a virus or spyware could be closing it. The other idea I have is to remove any "advance" html/scripting from your site. See if there is a specific code that is not agreeing with IE6. Kinda like when you have a hardware issue and you take out all components and start from scratch one by one to find out which is causing the problem. Take your site down to bare bones and slowly build it back up script/code by script/code until IE6 dumps on itself. That's at least what I would do Oh, and backup your site just in case something goes wrong! Good luck! Hope this helps! __________________ Help TSF Fight Cancer!* Web Developer Tools: Firebug for Firefox \| IE Developer Toolbar \| Run multiple versions of IE

04-07-2008, 06:10 PM	#5 (permalink)
Go The Power Moderator, Microsoft Support Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Australia Posts: 11,003 OS: Windows XP Home SP2 Blog Entries: 1	Re: My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] I got it working in IE6 but the layout was all over the place. To me it sounds like a problem with the coding not IE. if you really want I will move back to IE. __________________ Last edited by Go The Power; 04-07-2008 at 06:11 PM.

04-07-2008, 06:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
mwhiz Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 4 OS: WINXP SP2	Re: My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] Yeah the layout is all over the place because I haven't been able to test anything in IE because it crashes. Can you tell me what you did to get it working in IE? I know it's not a virus or anything because I have tested it on other computeres and they crash too. It's ok to leave it here though.At least I got a response in this thread.

04-07-2008, 08:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
mwhiz Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 4 OS: WINXP SP2	Re: My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] Problem solved. I had some javascript which faded my tag cloud as a hover effect. The background image for my tag cloud was a transparent PNG, which had to have a CSS filter applied to it to make it transparent in IE6. The javascript and the filter did not work well together. If only IE6 supported transparent PNG's in the first place. Nevermind. Thanks for your help.

04-08-2008, 06:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
Go The Power Moderator, Microsoft Support Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Australia Posts: 11,003 OS: Windows XP Home SP2 Blog Entries: 1	Re: My web site crashes IE6 - HELP!!! [moved from IE] thread marked as solved. __________________