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?
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