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FreakinSweetNews.com
09-06-2008, 06:11 PM
I have a problem with my site. It works fine, but in IE, it refuses to open the site. I get an "operation aborted" message every time. It's okay in Firefox, Opera and Safari, but IE just refuses to open it.


http://www.freakinsweetnews.com
FreakinSweetNews.com
09-06-2008, 06:21 PM
could a php script be the problem? Maybe i have too many? i removed one but still there's no difference.
Early Out
09-06-2008, 07:28 PM
This is just a longshot, but try moving your <script> tags higher, immediately after the <head> tag.
FreakinSweetNews.com
09-06-2008, 08:06 PM
Tried it to no effect :confused:
Early Out
09-06-2008, 08:27 PM
If you Google for ie operation aborted, you'll stumble on a whole bunch of discussions about it, but without any clear answers about how to fix it, other than a promise that IE8 will cure it (thanks a lot :rolleyes: ). People have even been running into it trying to access their gmail accounts.

As best I can figure out, it has to do with a script trying to do something before IE is prepared to accept it. The solutions seem to revolve around introducing some sort of delay into the Javascript, but how that should be done is not at all clear.

Quite a mess.

I think I'd try some simple tinkering, like moving the <script> calls into the <body> section.
FreakinSweetNews.com
09-07-2008, 07:57 AM
Ok, thanks for the help, I've fixed the problem. Turns out the script tags which call my lightbox script were the problem. The page is viewable in IE once i move them to the very end of the <body>.

Unfortunately, this causes the lightbox to take a while to work after the page loads. oh well :(