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vtmnldy
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My site freezes on Google - 1/28/2004 13:53:21
For some weeks now I have been aware that anyone who has the Google tool bar installed will freeze their computer bringing up my site. Since the site is my livelihood, you will feel for me when I say, this is not a good thing!
I have finally had a reply from Google, which follows, slightly edited:
"Thank you for your reply. Please be assured that our team is working on
resolving this problem. However, if we are able to fix this error, the
fix will not apply immediately, but it will be incorporated into the next
version of the Google Toolbar.
In the mean time we recommend that you or your webmaster review the code
on your page to try to troubleshoot this error. You may want to note that
the error is caused by an incompatibility between your site and Autofill.
You may also want to note that we have not received similar reports and
the Google Toolbar is fully compatible with billions of webpages."
I am not conversant with computers enough to know what they are suggesting I do - can anyone help me?
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Reflect
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RE: My site freezes on Google - 1/28/2004 14:36:25
I would start with validating the web page in question. W3c is pretty much the best out there for this...
http://validator.w3.org/
Once run if you need help with any line items that it found just post here and I am sure we can help out.
Brian
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RE: My site freezes on Google - 1/28/2004 14:39:05
Can you post a URL so we can look at the code?
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RE: My site freezes on Google - 1/28/2004 16:42:40
The url is www.vitaminlady.com
Thanks for the help!
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vtmnldy
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RE: My site freezes on Google - 1/28/2004 16:46:47
Dear Brian,
this is what the validator says, though I'm afraid Idon't know what it means:
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Fatal Error: No DOCTYPE specified!
I could not parse this document, because it does not include a DOCTYPE Declaration. A DOCTYPE Declaration is mandatory for most current markup languages and without such a declaration it is impossible to validate this document.
You should place a DOCTYPE declaration as the very first thing in your HTML document. For example, for a typical XHTML 1.0 document:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- ... body of document ... -->
</body>
</html>
For XML documents, you may also wish to include an "XML Declaration" even before the DOCTYPE Declaration, but this is not well supported in older browsers. More information about this can be found in the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.
The W3C QA Activity maintains a List of Valid Doctypes that you can choose from, and the WDG maintains a document on "Choosing a DOCTYPE". ][/quote
Is this as fatal as they make it sound? Could this be my problem?
Lynn
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RE: My site freezes on Google - 1/29/2004 1:16:25
well I would go to you site, but I don't it to freeze my computer, and for the moment I am not inclined to move to a different computer, but I can answer you question about the validator.w3.org in order for you to run it you need to tell it what html version your code is at the top of your source code:
it looks something like the example they gave you depending of course on the actual html version.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
hope that is clear enough to start you on your way.
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RE: My site freezes on Google - 1/29/2004 1:24:27
Hover buttons - they've got to go! *S*
Okay, let me back up a bit. I'm not sure this will solve the Google toolbar problems, but it certainly won't hurt. Hover buttons, as made by FrontPage, have just never been reliable for a large number of browsers, and often will crash them. So I'm not sure it is the Google toolbar that is at fault. It would certainly make your site behave better in browsers if you found another way to have those buttons, either as text links; possibly as CSS styled links, or as graphic buttons that link.
As for doctype - it is considered a fatal error when validating. Here are two links for additional information. I've sure others can add links they've found helpful.
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html
Nancy
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vtmnldy
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RE: My site freezes on Google - 1/29/2004 10:56:58
Kaloo! Kalay! O Frabjous day! A genius in Australia pointed out the errors in code that were causing this, and now - Tada! - no more problems with the Google Toolbar. Thank you all so much for your time, efforts suggestions a nd empathy.
Lynn
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