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All I can see is a black screen.

Firefox v3.0.7 on Windows XP Pro

I can see the site in IE7, but my comments are general.

Anything with the large background image also runs horribly and kills my system's performance.

When I removed the following from the CSS, the site was visible in Firefox

div#pagewrapper {
    display: none;
}

I would assume that your javascript would make this visible when the DOM loads.

Also, I wouldn't be even contemplating using the html 5 tag just yet... not unless you want to neglect a significant proportion of your audience.

Not being able to view the site in Firefox, which W3Cs browser stats suggest, roughly accounts for 46% of browser usage (http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp) is just crazy.

Trying not to be too negative, here's what I suggest you do.

1. Use a service such as browsershots.org or litmusapp.com to test on multiple browsers and platforms. Testing on your own machine with a few browsers isn't nearly good enough.
2. Check yourjavascript. I use firebug for firefox and it kicks ass.

Hope this helps

Hi PC Firefox Users..

We did a clean install of XP Pro patched it and then loaded Firefox 3.07 (with no extra plugins) and the site worked fine. In fact it loaded quicker than IE8... no suprise there. The site has always run fine on Firefox Mac. Linux and PC so we were suprised when two CMSMS folk couldn't view the site with 3.07. Especially as we develop on Firefox as a base browser.

To date no-one else has commented on not seeing the site and it gets a few thousand visits a month so I'm figuring people must be seeing something to navigate the site and generate a visit.

The reason for the black page is that we hide the page until the canvas has loaded so we can fade up... if I can simulate the bug here we'll look at changing this.. don't tell the designer : )

As for the Canvas tag we went this way so we get the fantastic scaling interpolation on all browsers esp IE. Canvas, thanks to google code, runs in IE6+, Firefox 1+, Safari 2+... there's no plugin required - you just need javascript.

As always if you're interested CANVAS Tutorials at https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Canvas_tutorial are a great resource

Cheers

R