Comments on: Freezer Case http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/ Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nigel http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-39335 nigel Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:03:45 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-39335 just to say – thanks for posting this bug
i had the same problem with a bunch of checkboxes within divs
and only found the problem by randomly cutting bits from the css ;)
Does anyone at microsoft know about this I wonder?
cheers
nigel

]]> By: John http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-1025 John Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:05:44 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-1025 Ok – it was the use of “Float: left;” for both the UL & LI. Apparently, the use of it for the entire UL and then the LI would cause an infinite loop to start as IE tried to align the elements. Removing it from the UL fixes it – but not vice-versa…

The reason it just showed up is it had something to do with the length of the “values” (link text) shown- hence when the values reached a certain length – it looped.

I don’t have a clue why – this is just my “quasi-educated guess” – so MS or W3C would likely know more… If I can’t control it – I find the workaround and live with it – everything else is a waste of brain chemicals…

]]> By: John http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-1013 John Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:38:40 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-1013 Eric,
I sent you an e-mail about 4pm today (9/22) that covers the fix for this issue.

I will leave it up to you, to decide, how to cover the changes that were/are required – for your “regular visitors” who are interested.

Thanks for the challenge.

]]> By: M. Ford http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-991 M. Ford Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:27:29 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-991 The original test case stalls IE and it becomes unresponsive. but my system doesn’t go down. I can shut down IE 6. so it’s not really a ‘crash’ of XP… at least for me.

]]> By: M. Ford http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-990 M. Ford Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:23:58 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-990 Both Sowdens’ and Campbells’ testcase do not crash IE6@XP on my PC.
Seth’s loaded too, and then reloaded and stalled IE 6.
I have XP SP2 and all updates installed on Win XP Pro.
Now I’ll try the original test case…. can’t resist

]]> By: Brett Merkey http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-978 Brett Merkey Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:25:07 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-978 IE6 and strict mode don’t go together. It’s the DOCTYPE here. The list of bizarre behaviors that IE6 displays in strict mode is criminally long.

Every time a co-worker has ignored my strong recommendation against strict mode in our IE shop, they have seriously regretted it.

]]> By: Eric Hodel http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-974 Eric Hodel Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:56:46 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-974 I have a test case that is window-width sensitive. I can load the testcase just fine, but when I expand the window enough it crashes.

I don’t need to use a ul, a div with the proper margins in place of the ul will trigger the crash (along with a width and float for the wrapper).

In the situations where IE does not crash, the content of the ‘list items’ is displayed twice, the second time below the wrapper div.

In a related win32 bug, while IE is hung, you can open up lots of Windows Task Managers.

]]> By: Bern http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-969 Bern Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:59:51 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-969 Not sure if this helps – change the line before the FREEZE line to padding: 0.25em 1% 0 0; and it no longer freezes on my system (Win2000)

]]> By: Keith Burgin http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-950 Keith Burgin Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:22:06 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-950 I’m sorry. Did you say it would fre

]]> By: seth http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-949 seth Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:45:55 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-949 I just checked, and I DO NOT have that KB867801 installed on my IE6/XP machine.

Neither Snowden’s or Cambell’s test cases freeze my browser. My original test does.

]]> By: Mike Rainey http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-946 Mike Rainey Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:25:03 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-946 I have tested the above test cases in all IE browsers since IE4. IE4, IE5, and IE5.5 do not crash. IE6 crashed, but only one of them.

What I mean by one of them is that I have two computers with IE6 on them. One that has all the available security patches installed and one that does not have any. The one that has all the security patches chashes horribly, the unpatched one opens all the test cases fine without crashing.

I then began applying patches one by one, starting with the earliest available patch. After applying each patch, I went to the test cases again and all worked fine. When I got to the latest patch, KB867801, the browser frose on the test cases.

As I cannot test this theory anymore, I am not certain this is the case. If anyone else would like to test this, please do so.

]]> By: Robbert Broersma http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-945 Robbert Broersma Sat, 18 Sep 2004 09:42:14 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-945 Both Sowdens’ and Campbells’ testcase do not crash IE6@XP on my PC.

]]> By: Lachlan Hunt http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-944 Lachlan Hunt Sat, 18 Sep 2004 01:59:48 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-944 This is the strangest bug I’ve ever encountered. Even with stylesheets disabled in IE, it still crashes. I’ll do some more experementing later when I have time, but for now, this is just another reason for users to drop IE.

]]> By: bla2kay » Internet Explorer mit Style Sheets killen http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-940 bla2kay » Internet Explorer mit Style Sheets killen Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:46:51 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-940 [...] zornigen Post �ber den Internet Explorer, hat Eric Meyer nun in einem weiteren Post einen Testcase ver�ffentlicht, wie man den Internet Explorer 6 mit reinen, standardkonfo [...]

]]> By: Greg Campbell http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-943 Greg Campbell Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:19:56 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/17/freezer-case/#comment-943 I also have a minimal test case. I added some comments based on my findings. Very strange indeed.

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