> >Following a site check (thanks everyone), it transpires that the site: > > > >http://www.freshclickmedia.com/previews/endo/home.htm > > > >causes a browser crash on the Apple Mac (reported specifically on IE > >5.2.3, but I'm now concerned about other mac browsers.)
> you have made extensive use of the "inherit" keyword. As you > can read about here <http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/misc/#crash>, Mac > IE does not like that keyword. As an experiment, I simply searched > for and commented out all instances of that keyword and your site > worked just fine. > I was not aware of that problem on IE Mac - thanks. > I expect you are using all those inherits in order to placate > validator warnings about color and background-color. If so, I would > suggest simply ignoring the validator. You still have valid code, > and all your backgrounds are working just fine at any zoom level that > doesn't cause element overlap (which for me occurs at 300%). A > warning means something could go wrong that can't be mechanically > checked. If a human check shows everything is fine, the warnings can > be safely ignored. > Absolutely right - my original CSS code didn't have those inherits. Headed over to the validator, and it threw up warnings. Little did I know that including them would crash the browser! I'll be a little less concerned with warnings in the future. > If there is some other reason for having all those inherits in there, > hopefully Phillipe's pages will suggest some useful workarounds. > > HTH, > -- > > -Adam Kuehn Thanks Adam and Phillipe (also BJ and eatme for their help). ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
