Feb 01
IE7 bug that causes blank pages
Tech, Web Browsing with tags: bug, ie, ie7
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I was at my in-laws house and my blog wouldn’t show up in IE 7 on their computer. Hmm. It would just sit there and spin, and all you would see is a blank page.
After some digging, this isn’t a rare thing:
Symptoms
When you open a Web page in Windows Internet Explorer 7, the page is blank. However, if you refresh the Web page, its contents may appear.
Cause
This problem may occur when either of the following conditions is true:
- The Web page uses the <SCRIPT> tag.
- The Web page uses multibyte character set (MBCS) characters. For example, the Web page contains Japanese characters.
To fix the bugger I actually reinstalled Windows Script Host, rebooted, and all worked.
However, how many people are going to work that out / bother. Ouch.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
hi there,
I got the HANG problem on your blog yesterday using IE 6 as well.
BR,
~A
February 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I’ve been having a week full of similarly intractable Windows problems that all seem to be remedied (resolved? - mebbe, mebbe not) by obtuse magical incantations or complete reinstallations of seemingly unrelated pieces. My blog post url says it all:
http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/02/01/not-nearly-enough-rope-but-im-almost-ready-to-hang-myself/
February 1st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
This sounds a lot like another IE bug, that is much more likely to cause issues.
Bug 153 - Self Closing Script Tag Issues in IE:
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-153-self-closing-script-tag-issues.html
Then again this is IE so it could be almost any bug!