Wednesday, 26 August 2015

black background obscures most of page

Most of this page is obscured by a black background that overprints
all but the first inch or two at the top of the page:
http://www.combehillwood.co.uk/polden-way/

This is using Netsurf #2935, the latest build, installed just now.
It was the same on #2789 (dated about June 9).

I'm curious to know what mechanism is at (mis)work here. Is it
something in the CSS maybe? Or something in Javascript? I did a
"full save" of the page in order to inspect the CSS, but it's beyond
me. (One CSS file is nearly 700K.)

I reported a possibly similar problem last spring about a CNET page
that Netsurf #2644 appeared to render initially; it then immediately
obscured most of it with a vertical grey band. Could that have been
the same mechanism at work?
Behaviour of that page is different now with #2935: even less of
the text is visible.
http://www.cnet.com/products/synology-diskstation-ds412-plus/

As I say, I'm curious about the mechanism. If it's Javascript, I
appreciate the vastness of the programming job.

--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk

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