Re: MS-IE6 gpf when viewing Debian web pages

[Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>]

Thanks for reporting this.  This is an issue if we want out pages to be
viewed by that (very popular) browser.  If we do come up with a fix,
more users will be able to see our pages and get more information about
our Linux distribution to (possibly) replace the one they are presently
using.  I greatly appreciate your taking the time to email this to the
debian-www mail list.

Regards,

-- 
-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow@svpal.org>


* A Kerr <akerr63@earthlink.net> [011218 18:40]:
> To Debian Web Authors,
> 
> While viewing any Debian web page with the multi-language links at the
> bottom, when my MS-IE6 browser tries to render the portion of the page
> showing links to other languages i.e. "This page is also available in
> the following languages:", I get a "IEXPLORE caused a general protection
> fault in module <unknown> at 0000:0001f929".
> [This is making it hard to read your pages!]
> 
> The problem seems to be the Korean link, and specifically the three
> &#nnnnn characters.  I've copied the text below (inserting spaces and
> mangling the html in case you are using web e-mail readers and this
> causes you problems):
> 
>     {A title=Korean
>     href="http : / / www . debian . org / contact . ko . html " }
>     &#54620;&#44397;&#50612;
>     &nbsp;
>     (Hangul)
>     {/A}
>     &nbsp;
> 
> Deleting only the three &#nnnnn characters stops the error from
> occuring.
> 
> Are you able to recode your pages to work round this (presumably MS-IE)
> issue?   I'll forward a similar message to MS if I can find a support
> e-mail address for them that I don't have to pay for.  (I've checked the
> web and cannot locate this message on any web pages).
> 
> My environment (if it helps is):
>     MS-Windows98 (first edition, with all current patches)
>     Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0.2600.0000 ;Q312461 ;Q313675 (i.e.
> all current patches)
>     I have font download disabled
> 
> I'm willing to test any fix you come up with.
> 
> Allan
> akerr63@earthlink.net
> 
> 
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