Page not viewable in Safari

My guess, based on the results of putting the page through the W3C Validator, that the problem is a combination of bad coding and using non-standard extensions. Safari is the least forgiving of browsers when it comes to pages with bad, incorrect, or non-standard coding. The W3C's own browser/editing tool, Amaya, also won't display the page.

I suspect this has something to do with how Safari interacts with name servers.

The domain of the site you mentioned actually points to another domain:
http://www.catalogueofships.com/
http://www.michaelkraskin.com/catalogue/index.htm

Firefox is able to pick this up as you say but Safari ignores the domain referal until the domain exists in lookupd within OSX.

Use the bug reporter on Safari to give Apple a heads up although you'd hope there are enough posts by now for someone to realise something is not quite right.

I'm having the same issue.

I can only determine that it has something to do with the Java update released in the last few days. Prior to the update I was able to reach all of the sites in Safari that I now can not (blank white screen, no source).

Firefox loads all of these pages with no issues.

Thanx for jumping in with your reply, ibosie. I believe you are correct and that a bug report should be sent to Apple. In case the original poster doesn't know the form is "Report Bugs to Apple" and it is under the Safari menu.

However, it is also the case that there are problems with the coding of the page which should be fixed so that it will appear correctly in any browser.

Can you give a couple or three examples for us to look at?

First off, I see you are not using a simple redirect, where you have the domain "http://www.catalogueofships.com/" and have your host redirect calls to that address to "http://www.michaelkraskin.com/". This being the case, there is nothing your hosting company can do for you - everything is being done within your web documents which are beyond the control of your host.

Also, you have three levels in your web site, which seems complex for what is accomplished.

"http://www.catalogueofships.com/" calls up "http://www.michaelkraskin.com/catalogue/index.htm".

"http://www.michaelkraskin.com/catalogue/index.htm" calls up two addresses in frames: "CoSleft.htm" and "blog.html".

"CoSleft.htm" is blank.
"blog.html", having been called by "http://www.michaelkraskin.com/catalogue/index.htm" now calls "http://www.michaelkraskin.com/catalogue/blog.html".

Additionally, W3C's Amaya is reporting errors on each of the three levels. Additionally, it won't automatically load the final blog.html. Instead, I get an error box saying "Not Well-Formed XML Document - Reload as HTML or showparsing (sic) errors?" As I mentioned before, Safari is very unforgiving of bad, sloppy, or incorrect code.

BTW, although the percentage of Safari users is still small, but it is growing and it is now the third most used browser on the web, behind IE and Firefox and ahead of Netscape and Opera. And note that it is the only platform-specific browser in the top five.

I actually changed that yesterday.

But I looked at your site in Amaya this morning, as I was writing my reply. However, I see Amaya needs its cache emptied to see changes, so I now see the new page.

"http://www.michaelkraskin.com/catalogue/index.htm" is still giving me the "Not Well-Formed XML document" error.

When you register a domain, you can have it point to something else. I set up a web site for a non-profit a few years ago. My account on the hosting service was something like "tegraves.tripod.com" (I forget exactly what it was - I passed the site on to someone else). I registered the domain "www.rotary7370.org" and had it point to "tegraves.tripod.com". That way, people could enter the Rotary address and they would be taken to my site. BTW, you could also get to my site using my actual account address of "tegraves.tripod.com".

You are very welcome. I am glad I was able to help. Be sure to post back if questions or issues come up.

Tom

I have exactly the same problem.
www.joelcadiou.com

G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Can you explain the problem you are having, and with what browser, browser version has the problem?

I have no problems seeing your site in Safari 2.0.2, Firefox 1.5rc3, Camino 1.0b1, Opera 8.51, or OmniWeb 5.1.2. I can click on all the menu entries, see all the photographs, switch between pages: everything seems to work. I do find, however, that the ad-blocking extension for Firefox, Adblock, completely blocks your site, leaving only a blank, brown page (I suspect, however, that Adblock needs to be updated for Firefox 1.5). PithHelmet, an ad-blocker for Safari, does not block any of your site.

I would start by making sure your pages meet accepted html/xhtml standards. Both www. joelcadiou.com and webamab.free.fr have errors according to the W3C Validator. Some of the errors are that there are "illegal" characters in your captions. These errors will not break your page, they just make it so the page does not pass the validator with no errors or warnings.

BTW, very nice site, well laid out and pleasing to look at and use, plus, very nice photographs.