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seth
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:35 pm    Post subject: Help: Some simple web pages do not load Reply with quote

[I am using a T-mobile Dash running Windows Mobile 5.0 SmartPhone with Messaging and Security Feature Pack. Version 5.1.342. ]

Some simple web pages do not load. They simply show some small number of KB (about 4-20KB) on the progress bar and then stop. The page never displays.

This is using the version if IE mobile that came with the dash (on WM5).

When I say "simple" I mean, no flash,. No PHP…essentially plain HTML

I suspect this is NOT a network problem as the same pages load fine if I use Opera Mobile instead of IE.

An example of a simple page that will not load in IE mobile for me is:
http://www.d20srd.org/

From the same site though, the following page loads FINE:
http://www.d20srd.org/extras/characterRecord.htm

The main difference I can see is that the problem page has columns.

So my questions are:

  • Does anybody have any idea how to fix this?
  • Do other WM5 SmartPhone users have a problem loading the example problem page using IE on their dashes?
  • What other information can I provide that would help diagnose this issue?



My relevant settings are:
IE >> Menu >> Tools > Options >> Connections

[ ] Automatically detect settings.
(checked or unchecked does not seem to matter)

Select network: The Internet

Settings >> Connections >> Menu (Rt softkey) >> Advanced:

Internet connection: T-mobile Data

Settings >> Connections >> GPRS >> T-mobile Data

Connects to: The Internet

Access point: wap.voicestream.com
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Mike Temporale
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Help: Some simple web pages do not load Reply with quote

seth wrote:
When I say "simple" I mean, no flash,. No PHP…essentially plain HTML


Well, to start - there is no flash player for the Smartphone. So I'm not surprised that you don't see flash content. Wink

As for PHP, that's a server side thing. You're not running PHP on the client browser. So this isn't a problem with your phone/IE Mobile. The fact that the page is written in PHP has nothing to do with the fact you can't see it on the device. Heck, this site is PHP and I read it all the time on my phone. Very Happy

IE Mobile is not the same as IE 6 or IE 7. It's more like IE4 or so. There's a good chance that the site is using something that IE Mobile can't handle. Opera Mobile is a totaly different browser and supports different things.
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seth
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry I was not clearer. When I said:

"When I say "simple" I mean, no flash,. No PHP…essentially plain HTML"

What I meant was thet the page I am trying to lod has NO flash and NO PHP. i.e. that it is a 'simple' web page.

Thanks
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seth
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I copied the problem page (http://www.d20srd.org/) to my own web server so I could investigate the problem

It uses a CSS:
http://www.d20srd.org/styles/home.css

The first line of this CSS is:
@import "main.css";


I found that if and only if I removed this first line, then IE mobile on my WM5 device loads the page just fine. I also verified that while the non-problem page does use CSS, that CSS has NO imports.

So one conclusion is that my IE mobile is choking on CSS imports.

Still no solution though Sad
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