No formatting is displayed and every page is just top to bottom text.
Tested on two different Macs.
Posted Nov 15, 2011, 10:03 PM UTC
This is because Safari ignores css files with a .gz extension.
There is some information here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9521
Confirmed. Safari 5.1.1 on Lion works okay, but Snow Leopard (and presumably all Windows versions) are picky about the file extension, and show errors about both the included javascript and stylesheet being gibberish.
Safari's develop menu's web inspector shows that it's not decompressing the gzipped code before trying to parse it.
The issue is with the html source referring to the css and javascript with the .gz extension.
http://redditstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/reddit.eJwkyNyAREU.css.gz when opened manually in Safari just downloads the .gz file, whereas in Firefox it displays the automatically-decompressed code.
lol, it didn't work for me so I just downloaded google chrome. woo!
Windows too, looks like the CSS is broken. Other sites fine, just Reddit acting up. There are several threads on this already, looks like a general issue.
Broken with safari on all my Macs, Opera works fine.
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Really enjoying my alt account running camino. It's almost like i was back in the 90's.
did it for me too, same OS and browser, went away after a couple hours. yawn.
Downloaded firefox - fixed problem
I use it occasionally. I don't like the close button for tabs being on the right of the tabs though, but I'm using it now.
So...what should I do?
I'm currently posting from chrome right now.
Safari 5.1.1 works fine in our testing on OS X 10.7.2. The issue will go away when we move to a backup domain under reddit.com (it's being registered with DNS right now) for static files, or we get websense to fix the issue with blocking our static domain. In the mean time, we can't do anything about Safari not loading the files correctly other than to apologize profusely and ask that you try a newer version / different browser until we can fix it.
Thanks for this info, I got home from work and freaked out when I saw reddit wasn't displaying normally. Any idea on a ballpark time frame? minutes, hours? (posted from Firefox)
Websense recategorized us just now, so hopefully we can switch back tomorrow when their updates go out to their customers.
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I wish this could be put on the Front Page in red for all the users that couldn't navigate the site very well to get this answer and solution.
CSS would need to work on safari for that to work :)
It doesn't matter what the domain is; it's just the fact that the html names the file http://redditstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/reddit.eJwkyNyAREU.css.gz instead of http://redditstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/reddit.eJwkyNyAREU.css
Both links work. Changing the html not to include the .gz should fix the problem.
Safari 5.1.1 on OS X 10.6.8 freaks out about the filename, while 5.1.1 on 10.7.2 works fine. But you've got lots and lots of readers on 10.6.8. :)
When we switch back to the other domain (which looks like it may be as soon as tomorrow) we can use transparent gzipping again, which means the filename won't have .gz at the end.
The .gz version is significantly (90kb~ vs 20kb~) smaller. Gzipping is very important for load times.
EDIT: we're turning off the gzip version. until we're back on the domain that websense broke files will just be larger. :(
For what it’s worth, Safari on 10.6 and earlier should cope fine with the gzip’d CSS files if you serve them with an extension other than .gz. In other words, serving the gzip content as reddit.eJwkyNyAREU.css.not-really-gz should avoid the bug in question.
Yeah, that's the plan as we'll still need the .gz type system for SSL to have compressed files. The difference was a code change versus a configuration change, and I'd much rather the latter when it's late at night :)
The lowest common denominator should be used for testing, 10.7.2, I'm running 10.5.8 and would bet that there are people running lower versions. :(
Disabled gzip for now since I don't know how long it will be before we can switch back to redditstatic.com. Affected safari versions should work again.
I'm having to use Firefox to post this (which sucks) and all I can say is I am VERY disappointed in this problem. Talk about unprofessional. Is Reddit being hosted out of somebody's garage or something? >:(
I can tell who's not getting a reddit gold subscription for their Secret Santa gift...
Really? Who? You can tell me, I won't spill the beans.