Site Meter is the culprit behind the Internet Explorer loading problems. They must have done an "upgrade" that didn't sit too well with Microsoft's shitty internet browser. Thankfully I saw the notice on Crooks and Liars and on Blue Gal's blog about it so I opened the Safari browser I downloaded months ago and took Site Meter off my blog.This whole episode shows two things:
- Sitemeter sucks.
- Internet Explorer sucks beyond description.
Do yourself a favor and down load Safari, websites look crisper and clearer and things generally load faster on it as well. I can't recommend the other browser who's name I won't even mention because the last incarnation of it I used would delete my favorites periodically for no reason at all. Safari from Apple is by far the most superior of the three most commonly used web browsers.
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The weird thing is, I've been testing other people's sites today with IE 6, but they seem to be fine from my perspective (I normally use another browser, the one I believe you have chosen not to name).
Just took a look at my site on browsershots, and despite the fact that I have sitemeter, it looks like it is still showing up on IE as well (though I can't fully confirm that).
I love SiteMeter and I love FireFox.
IE... not so much.
I hate IE almost as much as I hate Winblows. I use both safari and firefox on my mac and Netscape on my PC. Anything to avoid IE...
I had to take off Sitemeter to get my site to load. Now it's ok. I have Sitemeter back on. Still using IE! I am planning on getting Opera but I may try Safari. I kinda like Sitemeter-at least I understand it better and can use it more easily than Google Analytics.
I'm glad to hear you solved the mystery. I hope thing stay calm at the Monkey House. Or lab. Or banana tree. Or whatever.
I have IE and Firefox and there are things I don't like about both of them. IE does some things better than Firefox and Firefox does some things better than IE--yet both of them suck as well for various reasons. I took sitemeter off my blog when I had to switch my blog over to the new format. I couldn't figure out how to load it back on and finally said fuck it, I didn't care. Actually I don't care too much for sitemeter either and I didn't miss it.
Anyway, glad your back on your blog !
Opera is find, but I prefer FireFox
I use and like Firefox
I also use and like Statcounter
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