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Comment by paupino_masano | Hacker News Reader

I'm just getting a blank page - is that what others are seeing?

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/affVX.png . Links: [1]Scripts http://scripts.mit.edu/ [2]IS&T http://ist.mit.edu/ [3]SIPB http://sipb.mit.edu/ [4]Alex Chernyakhovsky https://plus.google.com/115426459041235345279/posts

Yep, totally blank page. JS enabled, no plugins, no caching, Chrome Beta 24 from New Zealand. All HTML loads fine.

There's an uncaught TypeError in common.js:40 (looks like jQuery.browser isn't getting defined?) which seems to cause the blogger object to not be created, breaking classic.js and gadgets.js nearly immediately.

Ridiculous

Yeah - you're absolutely right. It's to do with this line:

   http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js

It seems Google API's have upgraded this particular URL to point to 1.9 which deprecates jQuery.browser. Technically they need to update their template to use something like:

   http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js

Sounds about right - i'm glad browser sniffing is going away. Not sure what's up with blogger's testing team - maybe everyone's busy helping out with the GAE outage?

Next question - why doesn't everyone get the blank page?

EDIT: By your profile, i'm guessing you're also in NZ - Looks like they might have just pushed the update out to only parts of their CDN.

Are you using NoScript or something like it? The page needs JS to render.

Hmm, it does seem that the page is being returned but I get JS errors in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on OSX (blogger not defined). Oh well, never mind - the Pastebin and screenshots above give the gist of the story!

Mirror: http://pastebin.com/TesKihYZ

The content is actually hosted on blogblog.com, one of Google's Blogger servers. Do you have a problem accessing that?

Works for me.

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