Since yesterday the screen looks strange, very limited graphically. Quote function seems to be DOS style, full of strange characters. The worst thing is that it seems a screen of another forum, e.g. Audio Asylum. I use Firefox, Internet explorer cannot display the webpage, it shows a blank page. It's me, my browser, or forum's server? Thanks in advance
Chrome does not solve the problem, a screenshot here???? The Attach files option does not works, Smilies does not work either.
You could post the screen shot now.
Maybe it was something in your locality. I believe the page as you normally see it is made up from various sections pulled from different locations (says me who knows very little of how it really all works).
Maybe it was something in your locality. I believe the page as you normally see it is made up from various sections pulled from different locations (says me who knows very little of how it really all works).
The forum "look" is a combination of "content" and a "stylesheet" which specifies fonts, size, colors, and more stuff I do not know. Very possibly including upload functions.
The stylesheet can be served from some server other than the content server (as Mooly is saying). Either because a popular style is used by many forums and sharing makes sense, or just to get repetitive load off the precious content server onto another box and network.
In fact the source code here has something like this near the top:
"stylesheet" "http:// files.diyaudio.com/forums.....
A server name of "dastatic" suggests it is optimized for files which hardly ever change. Styles, fonts, logos, most images, doo-dads. This service is a commodity now. The style of this place has not changed in this century. These files do not "churn" like our constant chatter does.
I would guess that there was a problem reaching dastatic.com. Since only you noted it(?), it could be a problem inside your ISP. I had a month when my ISP was dropping connections to a specific host in the midwest. I could access by tunneling to NJ and then connecting, suggesting the glitch was "near me". That did "fix itself" (or somebody higher than a mere customer complained).
> Internet explorer cannot display the webpage, it shows a blank page
I gave up "understanding" Exploder 20 years ago. I suppose it could think, if it doesn't know the "style", it should just play dumb. As you see, NetScape-heritage browsers will display missing styles in default fonts which today look antiquated.
The stylesheet can be served from some server other than the content server (as Mooly is saying). Either because a popular style is used by many forums and sharing makes sense, or just to get repetitive load off the precious content server onto another box and network.
In fact the source code here has something like this near the top:
"stylesheet" "http:// files.diyaudio.com/forums.....
A server name of "dastatic" suggests it is optimized for files which hardly ever change. Styles, fonts, logos, most images, doo-dads. This service is a commodity now. The style of this place has not changed in this century. These files do not "churn" like our constant chatter does.
I would guess that there was a problem reaching dastatic.com. Since only you noted it(?), it could be a problem inside your ISP. I had a month when my ISP was dropping connections to a specific host in the midwest. I could access by tunneling to NJ and then connecting, suggesting the glitch was "near me". That did "fix itself" (or somebody higher than a mere customer complained).
> Internet explorer cannot display the webpage, it shows a blank page
I gave up "understanding" Exploder 20 years ago. I suppose it could think, if it doesn't know the "style", it should just play dumb. As you see, NetScape-heritage browsers will display missing styles in default fonts which today look antiquated.
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files.diyaudio.com and several others are alternate names for DIYAudio.com, but not configured to work correctly (odd style, no HTTPS). So it may be the same physical box, but configured as several virtual hosts under several names. This can be used for testing, redundancy, or just old experiments. Hardly worth wondering.
But being different host-names for content and style, it is very possible a DNS glitch or some router burp would get one and not the other.
But being different host-names for content and style, it is very possible a DNS glitch or some router burp would get one and not the other.
Sometimes, I get the same jumbled screen like poplin, and re-loading/refreshing the screen always fixed the problem.
Ah man! I have always admired your wisdom in your answers, but this goes beyond all of the above, chapeau! And thank you very much for your detailed explanation.
No, fortunately not, it did not say "Audio Asylum", it would be a nightmare, even so similar style is ugly. 😀
Very similar, but seems to me that your Windows is newer than mine.
Thanks again Karl!
I have bruised fingers of so much refresh/reload the page, no, it did not work.
Thanks to all for the help.
A refresh hint
An ordinary "refresh/reload", which can also be done by hitting the F5 button, doesn't necessary do a complete refresh if there's any data stored in the cache.
Hitting Ctrl + F5 overrides any stored data in the cache will do a complete refresh.
An ordinary "refresh/reload", which can also be done by hitting the F5 button, doesn't necessary do a complete refresh if there's any data stored in the cache.
Hitting Ctrl + F5 overrides any stored data in the cache will do a complete refresh.
Yes, Ctrl-F5
However, is this two members from Argentina reporting style-sheet trouble? That suggests some box at the Argentine border is not doing its look-up reliably. But I see such missing-style problem intermittently on many sites.
However, is this two members from Argentina reporting style-sheet trouble? That suggests some box at the Argentine border is not doing its look-up reliably. But I see such missing-style problem intermittently on many sites.
> cell phone... recall the counterpart about 3 to 6 times
That's not the same problem.
However, it does suggest your internet and cellfone providers care even less than mine. (Half the time I pick up my land-line telephone, I get no dial-tone...)
That's not the same problem.
However, it does suggest your internet and cellfone providers care even less than mine. (Half the time I pick up my land-line telephone, I get no dial-tone...)
BTW, I just did a test by blocking dastatic com on where the CSS files are stored and to where also diyaudio com sends its request commands, and I get the same result as your attached picture.
It is so that nowadays web programming has changed a lot and many web pages uses often two different domains to serve their web page, where the CSS files often aren't hosted on the main domain, ie. in our case the diyaudio com domain.
It appears to have been just some glitch in the communication with the dastatic com web domain.
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