[Zope] Bizarre, Frustrating Browser-Specific Behavior?

[matt carey]

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 05:00 PM, zope-request@zope.org wrote:

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> 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?
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> 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


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