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elmunc

Apr 22 2007, 06:27 PM

OK, this is weird.

About a week ago, my blog (www.isthatlegal.org) began showing big problems on loading -- especially in Internet Explorer (but also, apparently, with other browsers too -- I use Firefox and the problems are slight, but others tell me they're having trouble even in Firefox).

I think it's a javascript problem.

To see the problem, just open up Internet Explorer and go to http://www.isthatlegal.org

You'll find that the page hangs on loading, and if you try to scroll down, you get gibberish.

To see a more specific version of the problem, or perhaps an additional one, go to an individual entry: http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2007/0...udy_giulia.html

The individual entry page produces the following IE error:

QUOTE

Line: 211
Char: 1
Error: 'document.comments_form.bakecookie.1' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2007/0...udy_giulia.html

I've looked in all my templates to see whether I can find where this is being generated, but I can't find a thing that looks relevant.

Can somebody help me out here? I'm getting a lot of complaints from readers about slow loading and errors.

Thanks!!!

--Eric

sarah

Apr 23 2007, 11:29 AM

You index page loaded relatively quickly for me, but you do have a fair amount of javascript going on there, with your ads, amazon, truthlaidbare includes. The archive page took longer, with the call to blogads taking longer. I was visiting a few sites with blogads last week that had the same issue, with the call to their server taking longer than usual, so it may be related to that.

With regard to the javascript error you're seeing, it's related to the cookie for the "Remember Me" option for the comments form. The relevant cookie/javascript code is in the <head> of your Individual Entry Archive template, as well as below the comment form. You appear to be using templates based on rather old versions of the default templates - this code is quite different now. I wouldn't expect the error you're seeing to cause slowness in loading the page (particularly as it's not present in the index or other templates), however.

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