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Comment by mappu | Hacker News Reader

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

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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.

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