This is a problem I've been wrestling with on and on for the last few months. It has been extremely difficult to get a handle on, since it is intermittent and often difficult to reproduce.
I am bringing it to this list because it may be a CSS problem; it could also be an IE quirk, and am hoping somebody else may have experienced this problem.. The HTML validates perfectly, and the CSS is conservative level 2 and correct, as far as I can tell. The issue: I'm testing on XP Home, using Firefox 1.5 and IE 6. No problems with Firefox. With IE, a series of 60x60 gif images are inconsistently being displayed. Sometimes they show, most often when I flush the browser cache or start up clean. But usually I just get a small empty box where they should be. I have a light border around each one, so I can see where they are supposed to be. I tried saving as "web page complete", and this version always shows all the images, leading me to suspect something about the way the pages are being served. This is on a shared server at dreamhost, using: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 DAV/1.0.3 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.2 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e, with Zend memory manager. But since the problem never occurs with Firefox, I haven't been thinking too hard that the server is at fault. Here is one thing I noticed - I specified width and height attributes for the images. If I right click on an image (or where it should be) and look at its properties, I see the correct width/height images. But the "size", created", and "modified" fields all show "not available". With the version I saved on my computer on local disk, which always displays correctly, has the correct values filled in for these fields. If I view the access log as I reload the page after clearing the cache, I see the image requests, with a status code of 200, and a correct size of 480 bytes. I don't know why the size/created/modified values aren't available when I look at the image properties, but think this may be a valuable clue. Can anyone shine light on what this means, and why it is happening? ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
