Recently I launched a new site for a friend http://www.motoschool.co.za. Everything was working really well till the site was opened in Internet Explorer 8.
So I set about trying to figure out what was going on. Every time a link was opened the tab would crash and recover. My initial thoughts where that something was wrong with the JavaScript. So I started commenting out code to try and establish what was going on. Then I thought there might be something wrong with the CSS that was causing the tab to crash. I went around in circles for about an hour till I decided to scrap everything.
I commented out all the styles and scripts and the site stopped crashing the tab. Then I started adding back the references one by one till the browser crashed again. This happened as soon as I included the JQuery 1.6 min file. I couldn’t figure out what to do till a ray of sunshine hit me and I thought about the JavaScript parsing engine in Internet Explorer 8. What if the parsing engine was failing on something and causing so sort of memory leak or overflow?
So I proceeded to download the uncompressed version of the JQuery library and added it. Holding my breath, I refreshed the page and clicked around a few times. The site was now working!
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