Dan:Broken icons usually mean that the web site failed to send the image or that the file received was corrupted (cannot be decoded).
Every time I get a broken QT icon in Safari and reloaded the page in IE it is fine. An image or graphic appears where the broken icon appeared in Safari.
Try running a traceroute to the site. Make sure you're not having packet loss or time-out issues etc.
I have no idea what a traceroute is
It's a sequential PING tool, that gives you a "road map" of the path and delays your packets take/incur thru the 'net to a particular destination. There's a network tool in your Utilities folder that does pings, traceroute, nslookup, etc.
but why would a packet loss or time out issue (not the case here since it is immediate upon page load) only occur in Safari and not IE.
Possibility 1: If the site is running MS' web server software, then IE knows this and is using their secret handshake. Safari doesn't know that secret handshake, so it may be getting time-outs.
Possibility 2: IE is particularly insensative to delays. Browsers issue a whole bunch of "gimme that element (gif, jpg, html)" type commands to the server then wait for the data to arrive. Safari and other browsers require that the server respond in some way within a few seconds (per the standards).
Therefore, the problem could be web server or network path related. The traceroute will help narrow that down.
- Dan.
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