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

ID: 31432 User updated by: stranger at teuton dot org Reported By: stranger at teuton dot org Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Macintosh OS9.2 PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: I do agree with what you are saying, but as a Mac OS9 user my choice is pretty limited. I'm stuck with bugs in one browser or bugs in another, and none of them are going to be upgraded. I know I know ... I should use OSX ... but that's another discussion! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 14:10:05] shimi at shimi dot net 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/31432 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31432&edit=1