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From: Hunt, Jan
Date: Mar 8, 2007 8:10AM

I am wondering if anyone else has noticed a problem with HomePage Reader
3.04 using IE7 on Windows XP?

I recently upgraded to IE7 and noticed that when checking my pages that
HPR really freaked out. The entire window would progressively shrink,
then a blank HPR screen would show and my CPU was locked at 100%.
Looking in Task Manager showed two instances of HPR running and I could
not End Task on them. Instead I had to go into the Processes and End
Process on HPR.exe and Explorer.exe and then reboot.

At first I wondered if it was my machine, but I loaded HPR 3.04 on an XP
machine that had IE7 at work, and the same thing happened.

Now the weird thing is that NOT ALL web pages caused HPR to freak. I did
some investigating and it turns out that if the web page uses an
incomplete or no doctype then HPR reads along fine, but add a complete
doctype to the page and the problem is triggered. I also noticed that
sometimes a page with a complete doctype would start reading along fine
until you did something in HPR like VIEW > SHOW > HISTORY or if you made
the screen larger or smaller etc.

"It takes a great artist to work within the standard
and make something worthwhile."
Jan Anderson Hunt