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Web Kit Render Error -- have you ever seen this?

savar

savar

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I work on a web app that renders correctly in IE and Firefox, but for some reason every once in a while it bugs out on my in Web Kit browsers like Safari and Chrome. It doesn't do it every time, and whenever I see this issue I just hit refresh and it goes away, but it's starting to drive me crazy.

I don't get this error on any other site, either, so I can't figure out what it is.

The gist of this error is that occasionally Safari will render some part of the <HEAD> tag into the page, although I can clearly see in the document source that the <HEAD> tag and its contents are well-formed.

I've been seeing this error intermittently for over 2 years, including both Safari 4 and Safari 5. The page in question is encoded in UTF-8, although in practice it never contains anything outside of UTF-8's single byte encoding (i.e. basic ASCII).

safarirendererror.png


Hopefully somebody here has seen this and can provide some feedback. <fingers crossed>
 
Without posting the actual code, or a link to a file, nobody will be able to accurately help you.

But my first reaction:

:confused::confused::eek: @ trying to load in dozens of separate js files
 
eponym said:
Without posting the actual code, or a link to a file, nobody will be able to accurately help you.
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Well, I don't think it's a problem with the source, since the problem is intermittent. 19 times out of 20, the same exact HTML source renders fine, but 5% of the time it hiccups.

I was hoping this was somebody else had seen this before and would recognize it at first sight. This problem is too weird for it to have some simple explanation, *I think*.

Anyway, I attached the source for the page in the screenshot.

But my first reaction:

:confused::confused::eek: @ trying to load in dozens of separate js files
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In production mode we send a single, minified JS file, but that's not easy to debug :) So when I develop I run it in debug mode, which sends the debuggable version of each JS file.

I could see this being a potential problem, but I sometimes get the same error even when I switch to the single, minified JS file, so evidently that's not the root cause.

Edit: Also, here is a link to a demo version which we have up on our site: http://demo.openfisma.org. It's an open source app, so if you look at our website you'll find all of the source code.
 

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