IE6 users - a request for help

[RayProudfoot]

If you're still using IE6 would you please click on my banner link below and tell me if my weather site opens okay? I only need IE6 users to try this please.

The reason? I work for the UK Government and my department is still using IE6. Since last weekend whenever I open my webpage at work it locks IE6 and has to be terminated. It opens fine with IE8 and Firefox. I haven't got a clue what might be wrong as I haven't changed anything significant since it last worked okay. The private company who administer our computer systems insist they haven't made any changes that might cause this problem.

The only change I made was to add "with Daytime FARS" to my station description in Cumulus and remove the additional text I'd added to "The weather station in use..." entry.

Thanks!

[daj]

Although I do not have IE6 so can not test it for sure, I often use this.....

http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php

You can ask for a screenshot of how your page will look on various IE versions

It's usually quite reliable. (And you main page looks fine)

[daj]

http://browsershots.org is also good but you often go into a long queue. I am waiting around 20 minutes for your page to be checked so will report back

[steve]

Locks up IE6 for me, in an XPSP3 VM. I don't know the cause.

[RayProudfoot]

Thank you David and Steve. I've visited the netrender site and it isn't showing anything further down that the rain data with IE6 or 7.

Is it worth me attaching my indexT.html file for persusal?

[daj]

Very odd -- clearly something wrong if Steve can not get to it. Browsershots does load it (attached)

I've had a look at the index.htm file a nothing immediately jumps out as wrong

[RayProudfoot]

Very odd -- clearly something wrong if Steve can not get to it. Browsershots does load it (attached)

I've had a look at the index.htm file a nothing immediately jumps out as wrong

Thanks David. I should add that the text element of the page will load down to the point where you need to scroll down to see more data. Using your link I can see the top section of my site but cannot scroll down to see the remainder. This is the same as happens at work.

Is it possible to scroll further down on the NetRenderer site or does it only grab the visible part of the page?

[steve]

I think it's the WU Flash thing. I've been able to get it to hang FF4 too, and always at the point where the WU thing is updating. If you want to take that out temporarily, I'll have a look at it again in IE6.

[RayProudfoot]

Hmmm, that's interesting. I'm also running Firefox 4.0.1 but it seems stable here.

But I'll remove it and see how things go. Thanks Steve.

[RayProudfoot]

Updated page without WU Flash module now available.

[steve]

Working fine in IE6 now.

[RayProudfoot]

Thanks Steve. I think I should raise a ticket with WU. Maybe they changed something over the weekend.

I'm grateful to you and David for your help.

[steve]

Actually... I went back to try it again, and it's hanging again now.

[mcrossley]

It is very slow in Chrome too, with the following errors...

Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://www.cheadlehulmeweather.co.uk/ from frame with URL http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/ ... ation=true. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://www.cheadlehulmeweather.co.uk/ from frame with URL http://ui-layouts.com/tsi3.html. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

[RayProudfoot]

Thanks Steve and Mark. The Met Office link makes more sense as they have announced on their website the demise of desktop widgets and this may also impact on their weather widget.

When I've had earlier problems with their widget the Met Office help desk was quick to respond. It's a bit late to contact them tonight but I will enable the WU link and disable the Met Office one and hopefully that will solve the problem.

Strange how a modern browser like Chrome is affected though. I can understand IE6 because it's positively ancient but not so ancient that a government dept still uses it!!

I'll make the changes now and they should kick in in 10 mins or less.