Web site works in Linux/Firefox, but Not in XP IE

[Pantheus]

I threw together, (literally thrown-together, brochure-ware), pro bono,
a site for a friend, and yes, I know it uses tables, and imagemaps, and not CSS, for which I'm ashamed. But it was a quick and dirty deal, for no pay..

We see it great in Linux/FireFox 1.0.4, and XP SP2/FireFox 1.0.4,
Linux/Galeon 1.3.21 and the friend sees it fine in his Mac System 9,
but it is blank on his OS X system. Horrors, it is also blank on XP
SP2/IE 6.0.29 on both a laptop and desktop. When I say
blank, the title bar shows the site info, but NOTHING else appears on
the screen.

I've forgotten more about Windows systems than I ever knew, so I'm not
able to adequately trouble-shoot IE, but from what I hear, it *is*
idiot-proof. Hmmmmph Any cloobies?

If any of you could verify?

http://www.off-roadcenter.com

And hopefully clue me into what IE's / OS X's problems are.

Yes, it validates, but we have no Apple schtuff here.

TIA

Ken

[GhostDawg]

I'm currently at work using Win2000 with IE & Firefox 1.0.4...same as you get. It works with FF but not with IE.

Looking at the bottom left corner of IE, that error button show this message.

"Problems with this page might prevent if from displaying properly or functioning properly.

Line 56
Char 1
Error Syntax error
Code 0

Maybe check line 56 for some kind of syntax error. It's odd it won't display in IE but other browsers.

[Pantheus]

Saptech,

You are my newest hero !

A perfect clue, and adding simply --> to // --> on each page fixed all 6 pages !

I have struggled for exactly 12 hours, asked every web design person I know, two lists, searched M$.com for hours, and in minutes YOU find it.

That's the power of LJ !

I am indebted to you, THANKS, and applause added

Ken

[GhostDawg]

awww shucks... ;D

Glad you got it working. Well did you noticed the error icon in the left corner of IE? That was part of the clue itself.

[Pantheus]

[quote author=Saptech link=board=25;threadid=10530;start=0#msg94688 date=1119332179]

Well did you noticed the error icon in the left corner of IE? That was part of the clue itself.

[/quote]

No, I surely didn't. As I said, I'm so far past using any M$ product personally, (1999) I didn't even know the error indicater was there. The only use I have for M$ & IE would be to make certain a site actually worked in their schtuff .. as this one didn't ... even this old fart can learn sumpin' new ;D Since it was a javascript closing comment tag, half missing, even the .js console and all validation tests missed it too.

Thanks, again.

Ken