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

ID: 31432 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: stranger at teuton dot org -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Macintosh OS9.2 PHP Version: Irrelevant Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 20:07:14] goba@php.net Didou: we have a limited and easy to define result set, unlike Google Suggest, plus we don't have the miriad of machines like those behind the Google load balancers. Having the complete result set pushed down to the client (as it is done right now), makes it possible to cache that file, so that it does not even mean a single request later. Using xhmlhttprequest means a *lot of* requests to the server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 17:12:35] didou@php.net Gabor: Why don't we rewrite our script using the idea behind Google Suggest ? http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en This will fix this bug and the caching issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-07 16:00:53] stranger at teuton dot org 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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