[Ham-Mac] Kenwood Web Page broken for Safari

[C. Mark Burlingame]

Hi George,

I opened up the ARRL web page tonight with Firefox, and got a blank  
page.  I thought "Here we go again."  I tried with Safari: same  
thing.  So I tried a few things and discovered that turning off my  
Alume Systems NetBlockade (a component of their Internet Cleanup  
product) restored functionality.  I haven't pursued it further, but  
apparently it doesn't like something about the way the ARRL site is  
set up.

Curiously, Internet Cleanup is one of the products I ran on the old  
PowerBook, and turning off NetBlockade was one of the things I tried,  
to no effect.  Still, it might be a clue.

For what it's worth ...

73
Mark B.
KB9TVD



On Mar 8, 2007, at 11:21 PM, George Oswald wrote:

So far, no luck.

73,
Kb7hfs
On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:43 PM, C. Mark Burlingame wrote:

> George,
>
> If you find anything, I would be interested in knowing what  
> happened.  It's been a puzzling me off and on for the last year and  
> a half.
>
> Mark B.
> KB9TVD
>
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:07 PM, George Oswald wrote:
>
> Thanks for the many replies. I'll see what I can do to resolve the  
> problem.
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:31 PM, C. Mark Burlingame wrote:
>
>> This problem was discussed at length a couple years ago on this  
>> list and was never fully resolved (check the archives in July and  
>> August, 2005 and look for the thread "Safari and ARRL.org").  Most  
>> folks cured it by upgrading to 10.4.  The problem was not limited  
>> to Safari, but showed up in the various Mozilla browsers, also:  
>> Camino, Firefox, Netscape; IE 5 worked fine.  None of the obvious  
>> solutions such as clearing cache, resetting preferences, etc.  
>> seemed to work.  My concern at the time was that if the root cause  
>> was some hidden or obscure preference setting in the OS, that the  
>> problem could crop up again in Tiger, and we're back to square one.
>>
>> A few weeks ago I revisited the problem, and got a little  
>> further.  Using Firefox, I selected View/Page Style from the menu  
>> and discovered two choices: "Article Style", which was the  
>> selected style, and "No Style".  Selecting "No Style" causes many  
>> things to appear, but in an unformatted and tough-to-use format.   
>> I am very suspicious of a Cascading Style Sheet problem, but  
>> haven't educated myself enough in CSS yet to prove it one way or  
>> another.  Any experts out there?
>>
>> Meanwhile, I purchased a new MacBook Pro with 10.4.2 loaded, and  
>> of course the page displays nicely.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark B.
>> KB9TVD
>>
>>