[Mikegrenwick]

I keep trying to load my buddies myspace webpage with no luck. I have used safari, Firefox, and internet explorer....keeps giving me the pin wheel and I have to "force quit".
www.myspace.com/jessesvoboda

What gives....I know it works.
I have a powermac G5 Standard Dual 2.0
Only third party software is Microsoft Media Player...

Can you load it?

[alcimedes]

Teach your friend how to code.

[Brad]

Yeah. Someone needs to slap those kids that make monstrosities on MySpace. That page is a mess. O.M.F.G.

HTML validation results? Failed validation, 573 errors

CSS validation results? Hundreds more errors. (There's not an overall counter for the CSS vaidator)

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by Brad Yeah. Someone needs to slap those kids that make monstrosities on MySpace. That page is a mess. O.M.F.G. HTML validation results? Failed validation, 573 errors CSS validation results? Hundreds more errors. (There's not an overall counter for the CSS vaidator)

It isn't just the users, the software powering Myspace produces some of worst code I've ever seen. I have a profile there, just to get people to stop bugging me about not having a profile, and I didn't do anything to the code other than a small table. Small JPEG images and text, and it still causes Safari to crash.

http://myspace.com/ryan_tanner

Personally, I think the site has a good concept, but the execution sucks. Add a few hundred horrible bands, thousands of kids who can't code, and Flash movies all over the place, and you get Myspace.

[Mikegrenwick]

I agree with what you are saying....but still, I can load the page on my mom's pc and on my buddies powerbook...so is it my computer or what....it's starting to piss me off.

Its embarssing when a $500 pc can run it and my dual G5 locks up, regardless if it's hardware or software...

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by Mikegrenwick I agree with what you are saying....but still, I can load the page on my mom's pc and on my buddies powerbook...so is it my computer or what....it's starting to piss me off. Its embarssing when a $500 pc can run it and my dual G5 locks up, regardless if it's hardware or software...

The problem is not with your computer, it's with that page. The code was built for IE, and that is likely all it was tested with. Safari is choking because it was built to render standards-compliant HTML.

[Mikegrenwick]

How come my buddies powerbook loads it with Safari....

[Brad]

Trash this file. Quit your browser and try again.

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Windows Media Plugin

[ezkcdude]

Not only did the page make my system crash, I lost my entire PhD dissertation...Just kidding, of course. But, man, that page is crap. (And it did make my system crash )

[Mikegrenwick]

I don't have anything in that folder...empty

[Brad]

Nothing at all? Check again. I'm not referring to the Library folder in your home folder but the one at the top level of the drive.

[Mikegrenwick]

Okay, Just found it, and did it...works now....really appreciate it...not sure this has anything to do with it but the speed of browsing just increased by a ton....would this have been slowing me down in some way....I mean the minute I deleted it, got back on...I was flying!

[Brad]

Possibly, yes. And now you know who to blame for your terrible experience:

Microsoft



Just keep in mind, though, that now you cannot view embedded Windows Media content in your web browser. You can still download them and play them in the standalone Windows Media Player application, though.

[Mikegrenwick]

Heres the new problem...when I am browsing on Myspace, windows media player is automatically downloading things and finishing them before I can stop them and playing them in a seperate window...not to mentionit is leaving files all over the desktop!

[DMBand0026]

Stay away from myspace. It'll make you a better person.

[Brad]

I couldn't have said it any better.