We’re experiencing a strange problem in IE8 with our website. Sometimes our homepage stays entirely blank, although the HTML is fully loaded. Also, the mouse pointer responds to buttons and links even though they are not displayed. When we hover over a place where there should be a button or link, the mouse pointer responds like there was an actual link or button. It is as if IE8 has rendered the entire page, but doesn’t display it. We are experiencing this problem quite randomly on different machines in IE8.
I have been reading many forum topics about this behaviour, but didn’t find a solution yet. But I do have some pointers. It should be related to the fact that the CMS we use uses a meta refresh. The page we serve at the root of our domain looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>redirect</title>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=/web/show">
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
When we go to our domain example.com and we are forwarded to example.com/web/show, then this problem sometimes occurs. When we go to example.com/web/show directly, this problem never occurs, so it must have something to do with the refresh.
- In Firefox we can see that /web/show returns response code 200.
- In IE8 “Allow META REFRESH” is enabled in the security settings.
Your help will be highly appreciated.
We resolved the issue by removing @font-face.