a puzzle 1

[Foamcow]

CAn anyone spot what's going on with this site?

http://wwwDOTeddiehobbsDOTcom

In Firefox...
Sometimes the right column drops down under the left, but loads OK on refresh.
Other times it loads fine.

In IE, apparently it's OK, but that doesn't say much.

I'm looking at it for someone and have been puzzling over it as I'm finding it hard to replicate the error.

I cannot get the problem to occur when testing locally and since the site is generated by some kind of CMS (more details when I can get them).

I'm on a 4Mb connection and rarely see the error on the live site. However the chap that asked me to look at the problem sees it often.

I'm wondering whether it's a loading time issue.
As in sometimes the page is rendered before all the content is loaded or something like that. When refreshed, the content is cached so the page displays fine. Does that sound plausible?

Any ideas?

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[Vragabond]

That's what you get when using tabled layouts. Tables in FF get rendered while the content is still appearing and things can get a little messed up when table is expanding from the original size. Remove [tt]display: table;[/tt] from the #top and you should be ok. I believe IE simply ignores that and that's why it has no problems. Any other displays like that you should change as well.

 

[Foamcow]

Thanks Vragabond, that sounds quite plausible.

I've passed this on to the person concerned and hopefully it will sort the problem out.

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[Foamcow]

Well done Vragabond, that did seem to be the solution.

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[cLFlaVA]

tell eddie that he'd better hope nobody's viewing his site in firefox, because a larger font size will make for quite a messy read.

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[Foamcow]

That one is outside my remit, nowt to do with me guv'nor
But I will pass on the message.

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