Hulk smash
How bad is this: I finally tracked down a problem some IE users were having with sirens3.com, and discovered that it’s caused by code I put on the site to work around other IE deficiencies.
For those who care, the problem seems to be related to using ECMAScript to traverse and modify the DOM. There are vague references to this all over the ‘net–the symptom is that IE will load a page, then pop up an error dialog reading Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://example.com. Operation aborted.
–but nothing in the way of official confirmation, or even acknowledgement, of the issue by Microsoft.
There is something resembling unofficial confirmation in a Microsoft Web Team Q&A from 2001:
Although we don’t fully understand the reason behind the error you are seeing… calling setTimeout to force the document update to occur after the onreadystate event handler has exited resolves the problem. This behavior is probably because you are modifying the document from within the onreadystate event handler.
February 27th, 2004 at 12:52
I found your site via Google. I am by no means technical at all but the problem you are describing is exactly what is happening to my browser. Do you know of any solution? It appears to occur with various sites. I am on XP pro and have the latest IE version. Any help would be great.
Thanks.
February 28th, 2004 at 14:02
I don’t think there’s an IE fix available, Brandon. I’ve tried in the most recent versions and the problem is still there; the only “fixes” I’m aware of are to turn off scripting entirely or get the webmaster to remove the code from the website you want to get to.
January 11th, 2005 at 15:11
Strange IE Bug
Today I came across a VERY strange IE bug – a certain page would not work in IE, while it worked fine in Opera, Mozilla and Firefox. The message shown would be as follows: Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet…
January 11th, 2005 at 15:14
Strange IE Bug
Today I came across a VERY strange IE bug – a certain page would not work in IE, while it worked fine in Opera, Mozilla and Firefox. The message shown would be as follows: Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet…
October 6th, 2005 at 05:33
[...] Really weird and incredibly annoying bug in IE 6.0 produces an error popup when load some pages. Really hard to define the parameters for the bug although these two articles (scroll down to “operation aborted” on Channel9) say a bit more that most on the web at the moment. If you’ve just found this post and know of any other articles/posts that deal with this error, please comment. Will post more when I have more. [...]
November 5th, 2006 at 07:38
[...] More about the IE bug issue on Peter Janes. [...]
February 7th, 2008 at 13:59
Thanks,i solved the problem.
February 10th, 2008 at 14:48
The problem existed very long. Finally in 2005 Microsoft got rid of that.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:01
I think Opera is still the best solution if it goes to browsing the web.