Crash in ie8

[mikevierwind]

Internet explore in windows xp. Crashes when you load the website. When we put a background image on the body or html. Then the ie8 in windows xp is crasht. Can you fix this problem?

[scottjehl]

This should be fixed now - are you using the latest version in master? 1.1?

On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:23 PM, mikevierwind wrote:

Internet explore in windows xp. Crashes when you load the website. When we put a background image on the body or html. Then the ie8 in windows xp is crasht. Can you fix this problem?

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[IschaGast]

I made 6 test pages and 2 of them crashes in IE8 because there is a background-image on the body.
http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/

Testing done in IE8 on windows XP

++ http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/test.html
background-image on the body and the browser crashed

++ http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/test2.html
background-image on the body with a class and the browser doesn't crash

++ http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/test3.html
background-image on the body with an id and the browser doesn't crash

++ http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/test4.html
Background image added via inline styles and the browser doesn't crash

++ http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/test5.html
Background image added via styles in the head and the browser doesn't crash

++ http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/test6.html
Background image added via styles in the head but before the script and the browser doesn't crash

I hope this helps :)

[giodif]

I had the same problem, so I attached the background image via a class and the problem stopped. Thanks for the testing IschaGast

[elyseholladay]

Hey Scott,

Still getting a hard crash. Made sure we have the latest, and we had bg images on the body, so we removed that, but it's still giving me a crash. http://stageapp.socialpakt.com if you have a second! :)

Elyse

[IschaGast]

Strange because when I look in Browserstack.com is doesn't crash anymore... have you cleared your browser cache etc...?

[fetis]

I have the same issue.

this test http://ischagast.nl/respond/test/test.html crashed for me too

[artiswilliams]

We are experiencing this issue also. Background images on the hard crashes IE8 in Windows XP.

[theDanielJLewis]

Wow! I'm glad I checked here before giving up. I was having the same crashes. IE8 in IE8 Standards Mode, as well as IE9 crashes. I was actually on Windows Server 2008.

Upon reading the issues here, I changed my CSS to apply a background image to body via a class, and it worked!

It's a good thing that, at least in this design, I have the ability to do that to just the body. I can't easily add a class to html, which I also sometimes use for background-images in addition to body.

[joebanks10]

I had the same issue. I'm using v. 1.1. Removing the background image from the body tag prevented IE8 from crashing. This bug with IE8 seems to still exists (damn you, IE!).

[anthonycervantes]

We ran into the same issue. We updated matchMedia to use the same "fake body" logic that is found in respond.

I'm not sure that it mattered yet but we also added "background:none;" to the style for the test div and, if it was created, the fake body.

This cleared our issues on IE8.

Removing the background image on body wasn't a workable solution for us because we support a large number of skins/templates that can potentially set a background.

[joebotha]

Just to confirm another report of IE8 crashing. Adding a class to body and applying the image to that class did stop the crashing.

[scottjehl]

I'll add the background none workaround to fakebody in respond. Sounds like
a good idea.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:49 PM, joebotha <
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Just to confirm another report of IE8 crashing. Adding a class to body and
applying the image to that class did stop the crashing.

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[scottjehl]

Anyone mind testing the recent changes to master to see if this is resolved? Thanks!

On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:49 PM, joebotha wrote:

Just to confirm another report of IE8 crashing. Adding a class to body and applying the image to that class did stop the crashing.

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[IschaGast]

My test pages don't crash in browserstack IE8 anymore, I like!

Great work Scott!

[scottjehl]

closing out! thanks

[cheeyeo]

Hi

this issue seems to cause problems in a recent site of mine on IE 8?

http://www.wineselectionltd.com/winetrust/product-category/white/

Invalid procecure call or argument respond.js

line 271 char 12

I'm using the master branch copy of respond.js

the test browser is IE 8 windows xp sp3