[WEB4LIB] Netscape 4.5 problem - help with diagnosis?

[Isabel Danforth]

That page just killed my Netscape 4.06 browser.  

Isabel

At 06:28 AM 10/26/98 -0800, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>Web4Lib--
>
>Has anyone out there heard of any known issues with the official release
>of Netscape Communicator 4.5 that would affect this problem?
>
>I have a document that worked fine in Communicator 4.05 and 4.5b1.  I
>didn't look at it in 4.5b2, but in 4.5's final release, it crashes my
>browser dead every time.  I have done the most thorough uninstall of
>Netscape at my disposal and tried both the base install and the
>"professional edition" install of 4.5.  The document validates as HTML 4.0
>Transitional, it uses a linked stylesheet that passes CSSCheck (and which
>4.5 handles fine on many other pages), and it scrupulously closes all its
>TD and TR elements.
>
>Nevertheless, this document crashes my copy of Netscape 4.5 every time,
>and does the same to almost everyone else who has looked at it with 4.5.
>The one person who reported  no problems was using a Mac; I believe
>everyone else was using 32-bit Windows.
>
>If you have installed the official release of Netscape 4.5 and would like
>to try your hand at diagnosing this, the page lives at
><URL:http://www.ohiolink.edu/~tdowling/netscape_dies.html>.
>
>Things I know:
>
>  I can display the page if I comment out either the stylesheet LINK
>  element or a snippet of Javascript in an anchor near the bottom.
>  However, both of these cohabitate nicely on other pages with no
>  problem.
>
>  I can display the page if I turn off either stylesheet support or
>  Javascript in my browser config settings.
>
>  Several people have told me they could load the page initially, but
>  if they tried reloading it or went to another page and came back,
>  then the browser crashed.
>
>  Several people have told me they could load the page initially, but
>  if they resized the window, then the browser crashed.
>
>  No other browser seems to have problems handling this page.
>
>
>TIA for any help.  I'll summarize comments and suggestions for the list.
>
>
>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>
>
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