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Planet Eclipse is no longer readable from IE. On IE 6 (XP), it hangs the browser. On IE 7 (Vista), it gives the error message 'Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.planeteclipse.org/planet'. This has been broken for at least a week or so. I must be the only person in the world that runs IE.
You are not alone. See bug 205471. I'm not closing this as a duplicate right now because the symptoms are different. They do at least get to the terraforming message. I wonder if it has to do with some more strict setting. It's working fine on my Vista using IE7.
How about putting back the old code until the bug is fixed?
(In reply to comment #0) > I must be the only person in > the world that runs IE. Either that, or you're the only person who goes to planet Eclipse. FWIW, I booted a Windows XP box w/ IE6 and the page stays on Terraforming... I also got the message described in comment 0. I also got a JavaScript error: Line: 823 char: 0 'null' is null or not an object +1 for reverting to the last known good code
(In reply to comment #3) > +1 for reverting to the last known good code This also means that we'll loose the new banner.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > +1 for reverting to the last known good code > > This also means that we'll loose the new banner. > That's fine -- having the site working on IE is far more important. At least we can fix what's broken without annoying anyone.
ok. I've reverted. Steve/Denis please verify.
*** Bug 205471 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I would appear that this change now make PlanetEclipse on Firefox now work? I am using Firefox 2.0.0.7 on Windows XP.
I assume you mean 'not work'. I have FF 2.0.0.7 on Linux and it works fine. Can you try forcing a reload (shift + reload button) to see if it isn't just a cache issue?
(In reply to comment #9) > I assume you mean 'not work'. I have FF 2.0.0.7 on Linux and it works fine. > Can you try forcing a reload (shift + reload button) to see if it isn't just a > cache issue? > Forcing the reload worked.
I've ran through my IE tests and heres what i got back. http://www.planeteclipse.org/planet-new/ IE 5.5 - Stuck at Terraforming, Browser OK. IE 6.0 - Stuck at Terraforming, Browser Freezes. IE 7.0 - Displays Page fine, Browser OK. http://www.planeteclipse.org/planet/ IE 5.5 - Stuck at Terraforming, Browser OK. IE 6.0 - Displays Page fine, Browser OK. IE 7.0 - Displays Page fine, Browser OK.
Screwed again for IE 6. This time you get a blank page and scroll bars.
Denis, is it possible to create a rewrite/redirect rule which forwards IE < 7 to a different page? FWIW, I've embedded a META based redirect for IE < 7 inside the index.html to index-old.html. It looks like the GWT developers don't really care about IE 5.x anymore. Even IE 6 is considered wacky. Due to lack of an old Windows with an old IE I'm unable to test it. Nathan, can you have a look again? Thanks!
IE 5.5 is stuck at terraforming. IE 6 redirects to index-old.html but has no menu items. When I switch to index.hml still has no menu and then redirects back to index-old.html in a few seconds.
Now I get a big blank page with scroll bars large enough to see the content, but no content. Why are you changing something that works? I didn't see any new features.
(In reply to comment #15) > Now I get a big blank page with scroll bars large enough to see the content, > but no content. http://planeteclipse.org/planet/ or http://planeteclipse.org/planet-new/ ? > Why are you changing something that works? I didn't see any new features. We didn't touch http://planeteclipse.org/planet/. You probably seeing the effect of some broken blog that we aggregate. I tested http://planeteclipse.org/planet/index-old.html and it still works on IE7 and FF2.
index-old.html works great and looks great. Why not put it back?
(In reply to comment #17) > index-old.html works great and looks great. Why not put it back? +1 The javascript/GWT version is complex, hard to troubleshoot and is fragile.
(In reply to comment #18) > +1 The javascript/GWT version is complex, hard to troubleshoot and is fragile. I wouldn't say it's fragile. It works perfect on Firefox and IE 7. But two votes are already more then mine so we should switch and provide the viewer as an alternate version. Here is a preview using the new banner: http://planeteclipse.org/planet-new/index-old.html I'll switch and move the viewer into a subdirectory.
The switch now happend. Please test it. http://planeteclipse.org/planet-new/
(In reply to comment #20) > The switch now happend. Please test it. Thanks, Gunnar. FF2/Linux + Konqueror/Linux work great. MSIE6 doesn't work -- I get a long scrollbar with no feed content, and the page reloads constantly.
(In reply to comment #21) > Thanks, Gunnar. FF2/Linux + Konqueror/Linux work great. MSIE6 doesn't work -- > I get a long scrollbar with no feed content, and the page reloads constantly. D'oh! Forgot to remove the HTML redirect. Should be fixed now. BUT we seem to have a design issue caused by some blog using very wide content. I have this problem on IE7 but not on FF2. Nathan, can you have a look if you have the time?
It's working now, close the bug?
Screwed again. The page is blank. Can't you guys just leave this alone?
(In reply to comment #24) > Screwed again. The page is blank. Can't you guys just leave this alone? Steve, it's not us. It's some user blowing up the layout on IE with some crazy HTML in his blogs. It sounds too easy but we can close this as NOT_ECLIPSE. However, I doubt that Microsoft will fix their browser. Thus, we have to find a solution that doesn't screw up IE. But my cross-browser HTML/CSS knowledge is not enough to fix it.
> It's working now, close the bug? Ok, close it.
(In reply to comment #26) > Ok, close it. resolving.
closing
