[Ti] Safari spontaneously stopped displaying HTML...Submit Problem Reports

Joseph Ayers lobster at neu.edu
Mon Jan 20 09:00:51 PST 2003


>I conclusively found that the problem was a corrupted bookmarks file 
>imported from OmniWeb. I had repeatedly changed everything but that. 
>With a Safari created bookmarks file I could reproducively create 
>the problem by importing the Omniweb file and reverse it by deleting 
>the "Imported IE Bookmarks" folder. Safari works well now.

ja

>  >>I tried clearing the cache and cookies and still get a blank screen
>on a load. Interestingly, I just discovered that I also get a blank
>page on the show source. If I save the blank page from Sarari as html
>and load it with OmniWeb, it appears just fine. If I log in as root
>the same Safari application loads html just fine.
>
>ja
>
>On  Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:51:50 -0800 Joseph Ayers <lobster at neu.edu> wrote:
>
>>   Prior to this seemingly spontaneous change Safari worked famously for
>>   several days. It will display JPEGs  that are dragged on the dock
>>   icon and the bookmark pages are displayed, but when a site is
>>   selected from bookmarks, the progress and status bars work normally
>>   but no text or graphics are displayed. I've seen suggestions that
>>   resizing the window will overcome this, but it doesn't work for me.
>
>I had a similar problem and I found that deleting the cache and cookies set
>things right again. For some reason Safari does not have the ability to
>display changes to a page that you visited from which a cookie or cache info
>was transferred to your disk. When this happened to me I launched IE out of
>pure frustration and found the page displayed properly. However, I also
>found the trashing of Cookies and Cache from Safari had the same effect.
>
>I sure hope they fix this problem. I don't want to have to go back to IE,
>>>thank you very much!<<
>--------------------------------------
>Joe,
>
>I hope that you have, or will, submit a bug report, error report, to 
>Apple using their problem submission systems; otherwise, these 
>problems won't get fixed.  One of the responsibilities that a beta 
>user has is to report problems so that the release version is as 
>problem free as possible.
>
>Jerry
>
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