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29. October 2011, 05:08:49

jvance

Posts: 213

Another site "blanking" -- reported to their webmaster

Here's another website where the "blanking" problem is occurring -- the symptom is exactly the same as was fixed last month for the Washington Post website. The contents appear as elements of the page load, but then the entire page goes blank/white when loading is completed. Toggling the site preferences to disable Javascript will enable the full page to load and be displayed. Here's a link to the site's article where that same behavior as the WaPo site previously displayed caught me a bit by surprise (simplistically assuming what fixed the WaPo issue would have prevented the same thing from occurring on other sites):

http://www.railroad.net/cost-of-californias-high-speed-rail-could-triple-according-to-new-report-288.html

I've sent an e-mail to their webmaster with an explanation and a reference to the forum discussions here and the development team's notice on the earlier fix (http://my.opera.com/sitepatching/blog/2011/09/27/cleaning-menu-system-patches), so hopefully they will look into it on their end but also hope the development team will eventually have time to look at this additional site's behavior and extend the earlier patch or resolve it with another that's relevant to its particular issue(s).

29. October 2011, 06:04:18

burnout426

Posts: 13202

Does it work better if you add *googlesyndication.com/* to the content blocker? I think one of the google ad scripts is misusing a document.write(). That would explain why you get a blank page and can hit the back button to get back to the page with the content.

29. October 2011, 06:08:20

jvance

Posts: 213

Nope -- hitting the "Back" button would not get the content to fully load and display, but I could by disabling Javascript in site preferences. Sorry if my description wasn't clear.

29. October 2011, 06:09:36

burnout426

Posts: 13202

Originally posted by jvance:

Nope -- hitting the "Back" button would not get the content to fully load and display,



It does for me with the latest build at <http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/>. That has the HTML5 parser, so there could be some differences.

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