Is Arn Playing with His Chemistry Set Again?

[iGary]

:confused:

[DeSnousa]

Yes he has (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=207164) ;)

[kretzy]

I've been getting this all morning, along with text layering over other text. That happened when I was using Safari, so I'm using Camino now and it's fine. :confused:

[eva01]

holy mother of

[Benjamindaines]

holy mother of
I think the real "holy mother of..." is how many people you have on your contacts list :eek: :eek:

[bousozoku]

It's another reason not to use Safari. Firefox has been fine with it.

[sushi]

It's another reason not to use Safari. Firefox has been fine with it.
I may be switching. Safari is really getting messed up with MR.

[UKnjb]

Just pitching in here for Shiira. Until I read this thread, I hadn't noticed anything wrong at all. :)

[eva01]

The thing is, is that Safari never has this problem on any other vB sites i visit. Including my own

[XIII]

I have crazy text too...

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6515/picture10av.th.jpg (http://img163.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture10av.jpg)

[arn]

I'm not sure what would have caused this problem.... I just turned off compression. everything else should have been the same.

I'll turn it back on for now...

arn

[iGary]

I'm not sure what would have caused this problem.... I just turned off compression. everything else should have been the same.

I'll turn it back on for now...

arn

Still doing it this morning...check you later with results.

[yippy]

I have seen the crazy text about once a week for the past 6 months. Except for once, I only needed a single refresh to fix it.

I am always up to date and use Safari.

[iGary]

It's fine now.

[bigandy]

i'm really annoyed i've been at work and actually working for once, because that looked like a fun read :rolleyes:

and congratulations, arn, that's some amazing result for only turning off one thing... probably what'd happen if you put me in charge... ;)

[dmw007]

I was wondering why I was having problems viewing MR correctly yesterday. Now it is all starting to make sense.... ;) :D

[arn]

if the crazy text formatting comes up again. could someone do a View Source and copy/paste it in an email to me:

arn@visi.net

thanks
arn

[XIII]

if the crazy text formatting comes up again. could someone do a View Source and copy/paste it in an email to me:

arn@visi.net

thanks
arn

I will do, but it seems to be OK at the moment.

[dmw007]

I will do, but it seems to be OK at the moment.

Yes, I have yet to run into any more problems since you fixed it the other day Arn. :)

[mad jew]

Just got it then. Email sent. :)

[arn]

thanks for the email... the raw html loaded in Safari renders correctly, so it doesn't appear to be an HTML issue.

arn

[EricNau]

Funny. Everyone keeps talking about this but I haven't run into this problem at all (and I'm using Safari). :confused:

[puckhead193]

Funny. Everyone keeps talking about this but I haven't run into this problem at all (and I'm using Safari). :confused:
me 2... i guess were special :D

[arn]

hmm.... is it isolated the demi-god/contributors? I saw one post by someone who wasn't that it was a problem.

If you have run into the problem but are not a demi-god/contributor, please post.

thanks
arn

[mad jew]

thanks for the email... the raw html loaded in Safari renders correctly, so it doesn't appear to be an HTML issue.


No worries. Sorry I can't be more helpful. :o


If you have run into the problem but are not a demi-god/contributor, please post.


Like this (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=2496118#post2496118) maybe? :)

[arn]

No worries. Sorry I can't be more helpful. :o

Like this (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=2496118#post2496118) maybe? :)

ya, saw that one... I was going to ignore that one for now :)

my thought is that sometimes strange Ad code can cause rendering issues, but it wouldn't affect the contributors since there are no ads for them.

arn

[arn]

ok...

more information needed.

mad jew gave me an example when he went to a post following a reply. Can people be more specific what exactly they are doing when it happens?

Just loading a thread? Replying to a thread?

arn

[mad jew]

Most of the times it's happened to me today (probably thirty, forty or so times) it has been when I'm opening a new thread in a new tab. It's no huge hassle, but it's pretty weird. :)

[arn]

Most of the times it's happened to me today (probably thirty, forty or so times) it has been when I'm opening a new thread in a new tab. It's no huge hassle, but it's pretty weird. :)

do you remember if you've loaded these threads earlier in your session?

arn

[mad jew]

Off the top of my head, I'd visited most of the threads earlier but they all would have had new posts in them.

FWIW, it hasn't happened since that example I emailed to you so not sure if you made any changes but it's definitely behaving itself now. :)

[arn]

ok, made a change which should take effect in the next few hours. Not sure if this will change anything, but let me know if it improves dramatically over the next day or so.

arn

[mad jew]

Thanks arn, you're a champ. :cool:

[Nermal]

Most of the times it's happened to me today (probably thirty, forty or so times) it has been when I'm opening a new thread in a new tab. It's no huge hassle, but it's pretty weird. :)

I've seen it once, and there were no new windows or tabs involved. Hopefully it's been fixed, but here's a pic for good measure.

[iGary]

I haven't had any further problems since yesterday...

[macOSX-tastic]

camino all the way:D

S

[kretzy]

FWIW, everything is looking fine now, but the problem with the site not loading in Safari with the "bad server response" error seems to have reappeared. If it's a trade off between the page not loading or it not rendering correctly, I'd rather be hitting the refresh button.

[floriflee]

It's been fine for me in Firefox.

[DeSnousa]

Maybe it's something in Safari, such as a plug-in or something. I say this because some people including myself have not had an issue in Safari :)

[mad jew]

My Safari is stock-standard and I had the issues yesterday but it's all been good today. :)

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Woah... just had an incident when answering over in this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=2502204#post2502204). When I reloaded the page all was fine.

Using Bon Echo 2.0a3 (aka Firefox 2 alpha) on an iBook G4 under 10.4.6.

[EricNau]

...And I still haven't come across any of these problems. :confused:

Oh well, sucks to be you guys. :D :p

[mad jew]

Is that the first Firefox incident?

[Heb1228]

Is that the first Firefox incident?
First one I've heard anyone mention.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Is that the first Firefox incident?Nah... I've seen a few using Firefox 1.5, but just assumed it was my browser that was acting up. But it's the first I've seen with 2.0 and the first one after this thread was started.

[mad jew]

Was the rest of the page messed up, or just the arrow up your nose? When I've had these badly rendered pages, they've been completely unreadable because everything is not where it should be. I'm just wondering if it's the same problem for Firefox users. :)

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I've just seen bad renderings exactly like the one attached a couple of post up, where the odd (short) post has been affected. Not seen anyone more messed up than that, and nothing even close to some of the horror screen shots from earlier in this thread... gotta love Firefox... ;)

[Heb1228]

gotta love Firefox... ;)
Yeha, if firefox would check my spelling, I'd switch over. But as you can see, I'm very likely to type things like yeha instead of yeah so I need the spell checker. (And I actually did type yeha inadvertently in that first sentence. And just had to get Safari to spell inadvertently for me. Twice.)

[mad jew]

I've just seen bad renderings exactly like the one attached a couple of post up, where the odd (short) post has been affected. Not seen anyone more messed up than that, and nothing even close to some of the horror screen shots from earlier in this thread... gotta love Firefox... ;)


I wonder if it's the same problem though. Hard to say because it's acting fine for me at the moment. :)

[eva01]

Just got the bad server response error a bunch of times

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Yeha, if firefox would check my spelling, I'd switch over.Firefox 2.0 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=206410) has built in spell checking, while for the latest 1.5 you need Spellbound development version (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=351130). Both of them supports a lot more languages than Mac OS X' built in spell check, so I have UK English and Norwegian spell checking in my browser... :)

[mjstew33]

Yeah I had the same problem.. big time. Seems great, now. :)

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Just got another one. Used the "go to new post" button for this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=2506125#post2506125) and got this:

50041

As usual a quick reload fixed it.

[neocell]

For the last few weeks I've been sporadically getting bad server responses. It would be after every site access (just hit reload and it'd load fine the second time). Usually it would last for about 45 minutes, then they would stop and everything would load no problem.
Then today doing a cell phone search (someone put a link to some cool new phones coming out but I can't find the link now) and I saw the attached pic. :confused:
Is this normal? Never seen anything like it before. Columns and post # jumping from #12 to #15 :confused:

[eva01]

Getting a lot of them again.

I am just posting when i get them to see if they coincide with some certain cron going on in the server that may or may not be causing them

[mad jew]

Weird, it's been fine for me so far. neocell, those are the same symptoms I was having last week.

[arn]

Can people keep me updated again?

I've simplified the configuration again.

arn

[kretzy]

Can people keep me updated again?

I've simplified the configuration again.

arn
I was actually just about to post here saying that I had just experienced the avatar disabled and text overlapping problems.

Edit: I tried to return to the thread where I was having the problems to get a screen shot, but it all seems to be ok again.

Another edit :o :

[XIII]

Can people keep me updated again?

I've simplified the configuration again.

arn

Its happening for me again.

I did view source, and saved the result if you are still interested?

[iGary]

I'm getting jumbled text, too. - Safari.

[Nermal]

Me too :(

[arn]

send the jumbled source to me arn@visi.net

arn

[arn]

made another change just now. let me know if it's still happening

arn

[Blue Velvet]

It's still happening (the screen mangling). For me, at least.

Also, on perhaps an unrelated matter, is this normal? To have quotes on the side like this? Screen grab attached.

[trainguy77]

I think the real "holy mother of..." is how many people you have on your contacts list :eek: :eek:
Lots of friends.....or lots of random people.:D

O and I have not problems with firefox. Very strange.

[mad jew]

This morning (last half an hour) it has been happening just under 20% of the time. I'll send source code next time it happens. :)

[arn]

if you can ,save a web archive from safari and send it on.

arn@visi.net

arn

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Why is there a white field between the last post on a page and the Post Reply button and page navigator (barely distinguishable from the #fafafa background colour over and under it)?

[Blue Velvet]

if you can ,save a web archive from safari and send it on.

I'm spotting a lot of 'avatars temporarily disabled' messages on certain posts and where this appears the post is usually altered in some way like the screen grab a couple of posts back.

I'll email an example to you.

[eva01]

Why is there a white field between the last post on a page and the Post Reply button and page navigator (barely distinguishable from the #fafafa background colour over and under it)?

and for those that can't see the difference. Highlight the page then look at the bottom.

I have noticed it for a long time and just haven't really been bothered and possibly thought i was going insane

[mad jew]

Could that be the band where forum ads would be if you weren't contributors, maybe?

[Blue Velvet]

I also just had to post this one for the weirdness of it. :confused:

[arn]

for lack of better options, I'm just making small tweaks with anything that might be contributing to the problem.

I just turned off no-cache headers, so you may notice some pages not being entirely fresh.

let me know if it's still happening

arn

[arn]

everyone with the problem using stock safari? no addon's/ extensions?

arn

[trainguy77]

everyone with the problem using stock safari? no addon's/ extensions?

arn
It might be helpfull to know what version of safari everyone is using. Or is it all versions with the problem?

[kretzy]

Yep, just the latest version stock standard Safari.

[EricNau]

Hmmmm. This is the first time I've had a problem. In this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=208419), the bottom post wasn't separated from the forum jump and the forum rules (plus more), it was all just blended together.

Safari Version 2.0.3 (417.9.3)

I'll try to get a screenshot up...

EDIT: Screenshot added. BTW, the 'manage attachments' windows was a little different.

[neocell]

everyone with the problem using stock safari? no addon's/ extensions?

arn
I'm using Version 2.0.3 (417.9.3) with PithHelmet and getting pages like what Blue Velvet posted a couple of posts above.

[devilot]

The last few weeks I've gotten a lot of avatars temporarily disabled and when attempting to subscribe/ unsubscribe, the usual drop down menu doesn't work; it throws me to the bottom of the page where there are individual links to click (that do work). Using Camino 1.0.1.

[kretzy]

Attachments don't seem to be working now either.

[Josias]

Here's a funny little screw-up:D
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/1053/billede19rg.png

[macaddict06]

Hey Arn,
Sorry that I can't be more specific, but I did run into a bad load (overlapping text) earlier today. No SS, I figured it was a bad load, so I refreshed and all was well. Interesting to note: first time it has ever happened to me, and I've been visiting since early last year. Then again, most of my browsing is with the 10.2.8 build of Safari - 1.8 or something? I forget, I'm on my D/Hell at the moment. I only ran into the problem today when using a G5 that was running 10.4.6 Server. Hope this helps, but I doubt it will.

Cheers,
Macaddict06

[Aperture]

I got the overlapping text for the first time today. I refreshed it and it fixed it. I am using Safari Version 2.0.3 and OS 10.4.9.

Thanks

[Kernow]

Back again today for me too - but nowhere near as much as before. No mods/hacks/anything like that for me - just vanilla safari/OSX

[iGary]

I haven't had anything happen for a couple of days.

[Applespider]

Today's been OK here. Haven't had any in comparison to many last night.

[Kingsly]

If you have run into the problem but are not a demi-god/contributor, please post.

thanks
arn
It happens to me occasionally. I think its a safari thing, because it only happens when I scroll down really fast while the page is still loading.

I am using Safari Version 2.0.3 and OS 10.4.9.
Do you mean 10.3.9 or 10.4.6?

[technicolor]

Wow I had no idea all this was going on ...firefox/flock user

[EricNau]

I've been getting/seeing a lot of double posts recently (within the past few hours).