My Site Crashes IE8
Today I downloaded the new Virtual PC image containing Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. Being naturally curious, the first site I visited was mine. IE8 seemed to load and display the page, but then it went away. In its place was an error screen that said Internet Explorer has stopped trying to restore this website. It appears that the website continues to have a problem. I did a little research, and apparently IE8 will do this when a website crashes the browser. It's something called "Automatic Crash Recovery". For grins, I disabled this new option in the Advanced settings and tried again. This time IE8 completely crashed and terminated trying to display my home page.
This is either amusing or sad, depending on your outlook. Amusing since all my HTML validates STRICT and my CSS validates as well. All other browsers seem to "survive" my site. :-) It's sad since IE8 is being touted as being standards compliant, but it's obviously got a ways to go. The error message seems to put the blame on the web site, not the browser. Granted, this can be good in most cases, but deceptive in others. I'll cut them some slack since it's still in beta, but hopefully this gets fixed before release.
I'm going to see if I can figure out if anything can be changed on my end to address the problem, but even if I find something, it shouldn't be crashing the browser.
UPDATE 10/24/2008: The problem has been fixed in the latest dev builds of IE8 (see comments below).
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#1· John Hrvatin
Oct 1Hi Dave,
A co-worker who met you at the AJAX Experience forwarded me your site and it’s working for me in IE8 Standards mode on post-Beta 2 builds so it appears we’ve fixed the bug. :)
To make sure your site works today for any Beta 2 users out there, you can temporarily put your site into IE7 Standards Mode with this tag: <meta http-equiv=“X-UA-Compatible” content=“IE=EmulateIE7”/>
more info is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc817570.aspx
Thanks!
John
#2· Gaurav
Oct 1Agreed.
For now you could use the IE7 metatag for your page, which would enable compatibility view for your web page by default. For details, pl refer Method 5 in this document – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197.
#3· Dave
Oct 2Excellent- thanks guys!