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Issue loading external files (CSS and JavaScript) in Safari

Answer 1

+1 A:

When loading in Chrome, the Developer Tools - Resources view shows me that style.css is entirely comprised of chinese or japanese characters. I suspect that this is the source of your problem.

I also get illegal character errors for the following files:

http://use.typekit.com/ddg4ejn.js
/dch/castlemoore/js/ui.selectmenu.js
/dch/castlemoore/js/jquery.labelify.js

It appears that these files are entirely comprised of japanese or chinese characters - which I guess aren't valid in JS.

Dexter 2010-06-28 16:53:00

Right, that's the problem. If you navigate to the files themselves, you'll see that they are *not* comprised of chinese or japanese characters, but something is telling the browser that they are when the're loaded via the HTML file. Take a look at http://amsoell.com/dch/castlemoore/css/style.css

andy 2010-06-28 17:01:24

Yep - the files looked fine when I try to request them directly, but not when `link`ed in the page header. But - the page looks fine when I load it now, so I suspect that adding the extra meta page header got the server to send the scripts with the right encoding, or you've subsequently changed something else?

Dexter 2010-06-28 17:25:42

No, after trying the meta tag, it didn't work. Then I individually opened each file and "converted" them to utf-8 and saved them back... this seemed to fix the problem, but now it's magically broken again.

andy 2010-06-28 17:43:49

Answer 2

+2 A:

I checked your website for validation and it's not valid. But the most interesting thing is that your enconding is utf-16le. You should put your encoding to utf-8. Just put the following line in your <head> section:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

Bogdan Constantinescu 2010-06-28 16:53:25

The HTML may not pass validation, but that's not the problem here. I tried adding your meta tag, and that didn't fix the problem.

andy 2010-06-28 17:02:22

I see it's working now

Bogdan Constantinescu 2010-07-01 07:05:58

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