Re: Perl Website Fails on tablet
by tangent (Parson) on Mar 20, 2012 at 02:34 UTC
|
Not sure if it will make a difference but I notice on your page you have:
</head>
<body>
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='http://www.cfhs69.com/css
+/ie.css'>
<![endif--]>
Link tags should be within the <head> and the comment is not being closed properly, should be:
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='http://www.cfhs69.com/css
+/ie.css'>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
| [reply] [d/l] [select] |
|
It is indeed the improperly closed comment. Whether that comment appears in the <head> or <body> in this case does not actually matter one whit. Obviously <link> elements are supposed to be in the <head>, but in practice browsers do not care about them being in the <body>.
The fact that this one does not end with "-->" though is the problem. Effectively, the comment does not end at all!
The original asker claims that it "works fine on PCs and Macs in any browser [he has] tried". I'd suggest that he's probably not tried very many recent ones. Some older browsers will happen to have error correction algorithms built-in that might be able to cope with this page. However, newer ones are all converging on the "One True" HTML parsing algorithm that appears in the HTML5 specification, which treats the page in question as basically one big comment, starting on line 12 and ending on line 105.
Using lwp-request (part of LWP) and html5debug (part of HTML::HTML5::Parser)...
[tai@miranda (pts/3) ~]$ lwp-request http://www.cfhs69.com/cgi-bin/alumni001A.pl | html5debug --output=err
sniffing:chardet [complicance: INFO; line: 1; column: 1]
not HTML5 [complicance: MUST; line: 4; column: 0]
charset label:matching [complicance: INFO; line: 9; column: 0]
unclosed comment [complicance: MUST; line: 105; column: 7]
perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
| [reply] [d/l] [select] |
|
Lord I am not worthy
Thank you very much for investing this much effort on solving my problem. I made the change and now it works (as you knew it would)
I will investigate LWP and html5debug and add them to my library of debug tools
| [reply] |
|
Thank you for taking your time to work on my problem.
That appears to be exactly the issue. I swapped "]" with "--". It seems like some browsers tolerate this error, while others treated all my content like a comment! I made the edit and now it works in my tablet.
If we all had a second pair of eyes, maybe we would not miss these things....
| [reply] |
Re: Perl Website Fails on tablet
by bitingduck (Deacon) on Mar 20, 2012 at 03:11 UTC
|
For what it's worth, it doesn't display on any browser on my mac. I get a plain black page with no visible content. If I look at the html, I get a bunch of typical looking html but it just renders black. I haven't made any attempt to try to debug the html.
The browsers I've used are:
- Firefox 10.0.2
- Safari 5.1.2
- Chrome 17.0.963.78
I'm on a Mac running 10.6.8 on an old Core Duo
correction: I restarted Chrome (at its request) and reloaded the page. It gave me a quick "Class of 1969 Alumni..." flash, then went to black.
Probably start by seeing if you can make a static page that works from the html that you're generating, and figure out where that's going wrong, first.
| [reply] |
Re: Perl Website Fails on tablet
by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 20, 2012 at 02:39 UTC
|
"does not display" is not a lot to go on. A LWP::Simple get on http://cfhs69.com/ and on http://www.cfhs69.com/cgi-bin/alumni001A.pl which it redirects to both give reasonable looking HTML. Maybe there is something server side that is going pear shaped due to an Android tablet difference, but you're going to have to debug that with appropriate logging on a server.
If you are using Apache you may find something of interest in access.log.
True laziness is hard work
| [reply] |
Re: Perl Website Fails on tablet
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 20, 2012 at 02:46 UTC
|
Can you suggest where I might start my debugging? There are no error messages in my error log.
You say some browsers are not displaying what you want? Start with the browsers (page info, error console, view source .... ) then move on to http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/
| [reply] |
|
| [reply] |
Re: Perl Website Fails on tablet
by mendeepak (Scribe) on Mar 20, 2012 at 07:06 UTC
|
I checked your site in W3C Validator but didn't get any valid errors just one unclosed tag error, just check on that some times small errors can cause these.
here is the link to your errors Errors
| [reply] |
|
| [reply] |
|
| [reply] |