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I noticed that for problems 54, 128, 157 and 169 the link text on the page is missing (see the attachment).
I am using IE8b.

All showing fine in mozilla and Konqueror.

Is anyone else seeing this glitch?

No problem with IE7, so I think, it's the IE8Beta.


But I've no idea, why only 54, 128, 157 and 169 aren't showing :/

It may be that the browser can't cope with the extremely long lines that occur in the html source. All the data for the problems is put in one long line of 128000 characters. Maybe euler can put in a line break between each </tr> and <tr> to see if that fixes the problem?

To my knowledge the entire website is coded in XHTML 1.0 Strict (with the exception of using a couple of "target" attributes), so all tags are properly formatted.

I cannot reproduce the problem using IE8; it works fine in Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and IE. I wonder if it was a temporary glitch which has now resolved? tOmcOlins, is it still doing it?

What I can imagine is that for some obscure reason the cached page was not properly rendered/stored.
As the page is refreshed on an hourly basis then the malformed page will in the meantime be replaced.
If anyone can reproduce the problem please check the source of the page first.
If the wanted text is missing there too it's not a browser problem. If it's not missing it's a browser problem.
Secondly try to refresh the page to see if it was temporarily.
In any case send not only a screendump but the source of the page as well.

The problem does seem to occur unpredictably and refreshing the page sometimes does fix the text. I will upload the source of a page where the problem occurred.