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[_] IE help!

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 16:07:27 BST 2008

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Tim Beadle <tim.beadle at gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't your usual "my CSS looks odd in IE" problem.
>
> All our Community Websites are displaying weird behviour in IE: the
> browser completely locks up for minutes then (if you have the
> patience) renders the page as normal. The thing it, it's a bit
> intermittent, and other browsers have no such trouble.
>
> Examples: http://optics.org/ or http://medicalphysicsweb.org/
>
> We thought it might be 24/7 Realmedia ads or Google Analytics, but
> disabling them in the site config makes no difference.
>
> Anyone seen anything similar and/or have any ideas for a fix?

We seem to have narrowed it down to the AlphaImageLoader "make IE
respect 24-bit png transparency" hack, but this is code that's been
working successfully for a few years.

Tim
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