Thanks for the info Geoff. The problem has now been solved by removing an extension called AdBlock.
Regards Lloyd On 3/10/11 11:15 AM, "Geoff and Kaye" <[email protected]> wrote: >Lloyd > >On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with >> reality! :-) It's only a game! >> >> I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. >> As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site >> to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the >>Bigredsky >> site but no position comes up. E.g. >> >>http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160&AdvertID=123302&source=o >>th >> er >> >> But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. > > >It opens OK for me using Safari 5.0.2 on an iMac running 10.6.5. > >This is more likely to be a problem with the web page than with Safari; >more specifically that the web page uses non-standards-compliant code >which Safari cannot interpret. However it is interesting that Chrome can >display it because I understand that Chrome uses Apple's rendering >engine. Of course they could in your case be using different versions. > >I assume that you have checked the Safari Activity window to see if there >are any files which it failed to find at all. > >If you get a blank page then the next thing to do is to look at the >source code for the page (View/View source). If there is nothing there, >or only a limited number of lines of code, then the page has not >downloaded for some reason or has been truncated. If there is masses of >code, normally ending in </html>, then the entire file (at least the main >one) has downloaded completely. > >If this is the case but nothing is displayed, there almost certainly will >be an error (or many) reported in the error console (Develop/Show Error >Console). If you do not have "Develop" in your Safari menu you can turn >it on, as I recollect, in the preferences. The nature of the error >message hopefully will give you an idea about what the problem is. > >Interestingly, my version of Firefox displays the page but finds quite a >few things which it does not understand in the code, mostly in the style >sheets so they are not fatal. Safari reports no warnings or errors except >a missing favicon.ico, which is not relevant to displaying the page. > >Regards > >Geoff >---------------------- >Geoff and Kaye >[email protected] > > > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Settings & Unsubscribe - ><http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
