Site is garbage on a Mac browser??

nw7us · 10.05.2006, 21:38

Hi,

I have been notified by an individual who is using a Macintosh computer, in Germany, that the following Joomla site is being displayed as garbage characters. I have the Country Locale set to en-US and the Language set to 'english'. The site displays for me, and others in my area (different networks, different browsers), and others in various countries.

So, I am very stumped as to why on this person's mac, it might display as gibberish. The site url is:

http://ic-discipleship-ministries.org/

The screen capture that this person sent to me is:

nw7us · 10.05.2006, 21:48

Further details have been provided by the person in Germany:

Quote:

I have accessed your site again at 19:32:52 UT. Yes indeed, I am using a Mac but I never saw a similar effect before (I haven't even noticed this funny characters before). Note, that the Mac operationg system is Unix, in fact.

Wait a second, I will check with another browser too ....

ARRRGHHH - it works now!

Checking another one ....

Failed again!

So, this is the story: The Internet Explorer works fine, the Safari and the Firefox browser both fail. Looks to me, Modzilla type of browsers do not like your page ....

End of Quote.

Surely, Joomla should have no problems with Safari and Firefox browsers. I have checked using Opera, and the site works fine.

Please advise! Thank you.

nw7us · 23.05.2006, 01:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by nw7us

Surely, Joomla should have no problems with Safari and Firefox browsers. I have checked using Opera, and the site works fine.

For those who would like to know the solution of my problem:

The issue was caused by the System settings for Compression. I had the Compression of all pages turned ON - turning this OFF caused the problem to go away.

Apparently, having Compression turned ON results in some browsers not being able to handle the compressed version of a web page. Even though the browser has informed Joomla that it can handle compression, the version and type of compression that Joomla creates is not usable by that browser. Hence, you get garbled data instead of the uncompression webpage.

Again, by turning OFF compression, all webpages now display fine ( at http://ic-dicsipleship-ministries.org/ ).

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yy17616403 · 25.12.2007, 16:33

〖^o^〗^o^ 〖^o^〗
Shakugan no Shana
Claymore
Fate-Stay Night
Rurouni Kenshin
Highschool of the dead
naruto
One Piece
Prince of Tennis
naruto
comic
Angel Sanctuary
Slam Dunk