Comments on: IE Says “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet Site ________. Operation Aborted.” I Say “WTF?”

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:24:13 +0000

Interestingly, this error occured on only one of our sites’ homepages. Each is very similar, but the error occured on the Flash slideshow for only one site’s index page.

I simply moved the ” to the header and the error stopped.

I did try the ‘defer=”defer”‘ fix, but not having the Flash slideshow effect for 60-70% of our site visitors didn’t work for me.

Your explanation of ‘modifying the DOM’ made me realize I needed to move the script.

Thanks!!!

By: Anael Olmedo

Anael Olmedo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:09:54 +0000

Ok, I have a JOOMLA site, the error comes when the user opens certain article, which contains an “ISSUU” catalog….

THE QUESTION IS:
“WHERE DO I PUT THIS CODE?” i dont know much about programing, i would apreciate any help.

By: Alvaro Sanchez

Alvaro Sanchez — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:52:45 +0000

I was having the same error doing an Ajax call on mootools. It would load fine the first time but if you refresh it would give the error mentioned above. There is something about how IE handle the cached page. My solution? I appended a random number at the end of the page being called using Ajax. ( ‘URL_HERE?var=xxxx&foo=’+Math.random() )
It fixed it for me.

By: Snehasis Mohapatra

Snehasis Mohapatra — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:46:38 +0000

Just put defer=”defer” on the script tag and the error will disappear.

By: chriss

chriss — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:27:19 +0000

i dont understand how to fix it

WHAT?????????

By: SneakyWho_am_i

SneakyWho_am_i — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:59:17 +0000

@#%*!! One particular page of mine worked fine, even on Virus Explorer. One day it just stopped working. Why? I don’t know. I assumed that someone else had changed something. Hey I even stripped all my stuff from it and it still wouldn’t let Virus Explorer load the page – it showed the message you discuss here.

If the error message could have just said what was wrong, I would have fixed the problem. But because the message contains no information, I decided to just leave it. Internet Explorer users don’t need to see the page. Yup, that’s right, I’m not going to sit there for an hour with a copy of the page trying to figure out which line breaks it – knowing my luck, if I do that, someone will point me to some obscure Microsoft Knowledgebase article #34545645234 saying that it’s a feature of some kind to enhance the browsing experience, and not configurable from a web server.

Developers, please put information into your error messages. On personal projects, I no longer code for Internet Explorer. It’s not “you should view this page in browser X” – really I don’t care which browser they use as long as they use a web browser. “Please do not view this page without a web browser”

By: buddha

buddha — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:38:07 +0000

NIce man. I’m using Prototype. Here’s the syntax for it
Event.observe(document, “dom:loaded”, function(){
//put your stuff here :)
});

By: Davin

Davin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:03:45 +0000

Thanks Man!

By: Te-jé Rodgers

Te-jé Rodgers — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:45:25 +0000

Thanks a lot man; this saved me ages of headache.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:22:59 +0000

Great post. 100% useful. I fixed a bug thanks to this. Thanks so much!!!