Tricklin

There are plenty of people, besides me, that can't stand IE and the problems it causes them. And These people have gone the extra mile:

There are countless bugs in Internet Explorer, but here are the main reasons to choose a free alternative.

• Prone to viruses and worms
• Renders pages incorrectly. Web designers then need to spend extra time working so that pages work in Internet Explorer. This puts costs up, and slows the web down.
• Doesn't let people resize certain text sizes. This means those with poor sight cannot read small text on many sites.
• Far slower program than other web browsers
• Far larger program than other web browsers
• Isn't as user-centric as other web browsers. It lacks many handy features such as tabbed browsing and integrated search
• Doesn't support PNG images properly

-- StopIE.com

And check out "ie7.com". Gotta love it.

This issue has puzzled me for quite some time, and finally after some research I was able to figure out just what the heck was going on.

The Problem

For some odd and seemingly unexplainable reason, IE will display duplicate/repeating characters even though the code does not represent this.

...
      <div id="thumbnails" style="display:none;"></div>
      <div id="story" style="position:relative;float:right;">
         < ;p style="position:relative;float:right;">01.01.01</p>
         < ;h2>Title</h2>
         < ;p>Lorem Ipsum ...</p>
      </div>
   </div>
   <div id="footer">
      <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the main page.">home</a>
      &nbsp;|&nbsp;< br />       <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the about page.">about</a>
      &nbsp;|&nbsp;< br />       <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the photos page.">photos</a>
      &nbsp;|&nbsp;< br />       <a href="http://xxx title="Click here to go to the contact us page.">contact</a>
      &nbsp;||&nbsp;
      <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the site map.">site map</a>
      <br />
      &copy;&nbsp;20 06  <a href="http://www.tricklin.com">tricklin.com</a>
   </div>
   <!-- end 'footer' -->
</div>
<!-- end 'page' -->
...

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A good friend of mine recently sent me an e-mail:

For the last couple days my internet has been shutting down frequently with the "Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" message.
It seems to happen after I switch to pages that have some sort of sound or action on them. For example, it ALWAYS happens when I go to the forgottenfour myspace page, which automatically plays a song.
I think this started right after I downloaded some system updates. Could that be related?
Is there anything you can think of that I should do?

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