On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 05:00 PM, zope-request@zope.org wrote:
--__--__--
Message: 5 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:28:25 -0700 From: Dan Shafer <pydan@danshafer.com> To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Bizarre, Frustrating Browser-Specific Behavior? [snip]
1. Working in IE5 on Macintosh OS X, I often encounter what look for all the world like corrupted or scrambled files. Python Script objects appear particularly vulnerable, but I've seen this with DTML docs and methods as well. The symptom is that some number of letters at the beginning of the file appear to be replaced by stray and often unprintable characters. When this happens, the rest of the file becomes scrambled and sometimes unreadable, always cut off before it ends. I can switch to Windows at that point, e.g., and open the same file, and all looks normal.
[snip]
So is *anyone* else running into this kind of bizarre behavior? I have lost substantial productive time both tracking and dealing with these and other issues over the past few months. Zope is still faster and better than anything else I've used but I am loath to risk my clients' time and money on it if the substrate is still as quirky as my experience would *seem* to indicate it may be.
I get this too Dan! I also only seem to get it using IE5 (as it happens in OS X). The first line does indeed get replaced with a random string of characters (which panics me especially if that first line is a DTML tag!). First I thought this was down to me testing my dreamweaver DTML extension, but it looks like its a common thing. We have had a re-occuring issue of IE on the mac loosing the characters from the bottom of a DTML method or document. This we managed to work out was because of the limit of characters in an multi-line input box in IE (in classic). So we resorted to editing using a PC for a while. For some reason IE in OS X doesn't have this (or maybe I have not used a long enough document yet!). [I have not tested it thoroughly to know if this only happens with IE or not, so I can't be 100% sure on that.] If it happens I tend to use Mozilla on OS X, which hasn't (as yet) caused this problem to occur. Also, I just do an undo of the previous action, which hopefully doesn't loose me too much time! :) cheers matt -------------------------------- Matt Carey Text Matters 37 Upper Redlands Road, Information design: Reading RG1 5JE, UK We help explain things using phone +44 (0)118 986 8313 .language fax +44 (0)118 931 3743 .design email matt@textmatters.com .systems web http://www.textmatters.com .process