Trouble in Minnesota?

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Trouble in Minnesota?

Post by Danzier »

I hope I'm putting this in the right place...

I usually use IE to read the comic (Stop criticizing me, I have reasons!) and as of Thursday, none of the art shows up.

It shows up just fine in Firefox.

Is this a problem with IE (needs updates, got updates, whatever) or a code problem? Any chance of it getting fixed?

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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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There may be a problem with the site main page HTML, possibly due to an ad insertion. The W3C validator says that there's an unclosed HTML comment block inside of a script tag. This seems to be causing at least some versions of IE to ignore part of the page contents. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari seem to recover from it successfully.

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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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Ah. Ok. Thanks for checking.
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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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Danzier wrote: It shows up just fine in Firefox.
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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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first, if you are one who HAS to use IE due to it being a company pc, who are paranoid and clueless so set the company policy to only use IE.....
.... type 'portable browser' into google.. you will find many ways of putting a better browser onto USB, without scaring the boss!! :mrgreen:
(BUT! do note that the latest IE **does** have an adblocker for it!!! 8-) )

I use FF adblock, that solves most probs... its a shame that a *lot* of websites use the same company for their **dubious ads on dubious sites** that is used on my many comics, hifi, tech sites.... :( :( otherwise I would not have problems... {shrug}

Advertisers, FF adblock even has an acceptable-ads mode (click > filter prefs, filter subscription) :) you know it makes sense... :)
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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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Well I just realized that I have the problem with Wapsi on my phone, and I can't change the browsers on it so I just have to hope that the webmaster can fix the glitch soon (it is the only way I can get my Wapsi fix when I am on the road)
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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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I had just figured that the last big security update for W7 changed something in IE9 having to do with the security weaknesses re: Gifs and custom fonts. I went ahead and changed to FF. Can't tell if I like it better yet, or not...
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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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Y'know, I try and try to remain loyal to IE, no matter how many complaints I hear about it. But when stuff like this happens.... :| Well, I already use Chrome for watching videos & Firefox for Facebook. Using one of them for webcomics isn't that big of a deal.
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NOTDilbert wrote:I had just figured that the last big security update for W7 changed something in IE9 having to do with the security weaknesses re: Gifs and custom fonts. I went ahead and changed to FF. Can't tell if I like it better yet, or not...
The patch that broke things this past Patch Tuesday had to do with font rendering - Open Type fonts, as i recall.
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Re: Trouble in Minnesota?

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Paul has fixed! We <3 Paul!
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