#31432 [Com]: IE 5.1 hangs trying to access PHP.net pages

ID: 31432 Comment by: shimi at shimi dot net Reported By: stranger at teuton dot org Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Macintosh OS9.2 PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: You see, I KNEW they're not gonna fix it. :) Regardless of the bug(?) solution, I strongly suggest the reporter NOT to use a browser that has known security flaws which nobody can stop and cannot be upgraded, because eventually, his computer WILL be compromised. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 13:06:55] goba@php.net Shimi: MS stopped Mac IE development. Webmaster: We need to maintain cacheability of php.net pages, so we need to check the browser in JavaScript, and then if we found the browser to be compatible, we need to load in the library doing the suggestions. This will make the suggestions appear a little bit later for those supporting this feature, but it is doable. We need to look at caching issues of that suggestions JS code though. If we dynamically load it from JS, it might not get cached in not smart enough browsers, and we would end up with too many repeating requests on that file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 12:53:19] shimi at shimi dot net If you ask me (and you will probably not, because you use IE) - A script should not be able to hang a browser; Especially if it is not designed for that purpose on purpose (infinitive loop - while 1=1, for instance). I recall Firefox recognizing a resource starvation loop, and halting the run, warning me that the page misbehaves, but does not, at any case, hang. It even stops Redirection loops... You do realize that this is actually a (yet another) bug in IE that Microsoft should (but probably never will) fix... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 11:36:43] stranger at teuton dot org Thanks for the help! I sould certainly agree that the feature should be off by default if incompatible browser versions cannot be detected automatically. Since the script freezes the browser (in the case of IE5) before the page even loads there is no way to disable the feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 11:10:52] didou@php.net For now, go to http://php.net/my , section "Search field suggestions" and check the "hide" box. Webmaster: we should either maintain a list of non compatible browsers or disable the feature by default (and maybe add a small icon near the search field to activate it). Opinions ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-06 20:10:41] stranger at teuton dot org Description: ------------ Up until your recent update of PHP.net (over Christmas 2004/05) I have always accessed the site without problems using Internet Explorer 5.1 on Mac OS9. Now visiting any page on the site causes IE to hang, and eventually I have to force quit it. It seems to be a script/plugin problem, since turning off scripting and plugns allows the pages to be viewed. Often it appears to hang when downloading certain images (at least images such as 'box' are in the status bar when the browser hangs) but no page elements are loaded at all and the hang is total. I can still view the site on Netscape versions available for Mac OS9, but not on IE, and I would really love to be able to do so again! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31432&edit=1