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Background is that most Apple browsers use the Webkit rendering engine, including Shiira and Safari (supplied with Mac OS X). Those that do not, apart from the cross-platform Opera and Firefox, include Camino, and OmniWeb, although the last will be moving to it soon (which makes the problem worse).

There is a problem viewing this forum with browsers using Webkit which is reproducible across them - so it is the rendering engine, not the browser, causing the problem.

Essentially each page loads successfully, then suddenly "jumps" so that most (frequently all) contributions are replaced by a large blank space! This behaviour suggests that there is something in the stylesheet(s) being misinterpreted, as these are applied after the page content is downloaded.

Any ideas? (I have downloaded the latest nightly build of Webkit to no avail; as a result, I have to use a non-Webkit-based browser ...)

pg · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 1485 Location: Cyprus

Could it be related to this:

http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/webkit-unassigned/2005-December/000996.html

thebrix · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

pg wrote: Could it be related to this:

http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/webkit-unassigned/2005-December/000996.html

It does sound similar, although each article (not the entire page) is shown blank. I am searching on "webkit phpbb2" without success so far.

Mind you, I had a look at the source of this page and it has a few lines of JavaScript embedded inside the <head>. Hmmm!

Mete · Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 1150 Location: Boston

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Mind you, I had a look at the source of this page and it has a few lines of JavaScript embedded inside the <head>. Hmmm!

So? It's a standard practice to define JavaScript functions in the head section of the HTML, in order to be able to use them later in the HTML code.