Today I begin ripping apart my blog to see why IE7 gives an “aborted operation” warning every time you try to open the comments. Please stand by.
I’d like to thank Brian Gardner, part of the team at Revolution, who sent me the original code to work with.
Update: The Answer
The answer is there is no answer, er, no solution that is. I read all of the following articles before I found out what was happening:
- Topic: Can’t open videos on IE7
- Embedded Youtube video Crashes Ie
- Vimeo won’t view in Internet Explorer
- internet explorer cannot open the internet site – operation aborted – IE7
No one had a definitive answer. Finally got the scoop at http://news.softpedia.com/:
One error message that plagued Internet Explorer 7, but that won’t make it into the final version of Internet Explorer 8 refers to “operation aborted” messages. In IE7, operation aborted errors, marked by the associated dialog box featured in the screenshot on the left, prevented users from surfing certain websites, serving navigation error screens instead. IE7 simply failed to offer any way around the error, preventing the accessing of specific websites affected by a HTML parsing bug. However, with the next iteration of the Internet Explorer browser, end users will no longer face the operation aborted dialog box, starting with IE8 Beta 1.
I unplugged all my plugins. I removed all my widgets. I deleted the old template and uploaded a brand new copy. Nothing worked. I fucking hate IE7. But there is an inescapable fact…
So I’ll just have to quite using embedded video for a while till I find the real solution.
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You could send out a crack team of Blackwater types to force everyone to not use IE.
i have no idea why folks don’t switch to firefox. i know that there are issues- i haven’t personally had any of them. it’s secure and works beautifully every time i boot up. internet explorer sucks all the way ’round.
Hi, i got this link cause you quoted one of my posts.
The solution ( Strange? ) Is simply put the flash content inside a div.. If this will not work Add a div..
The answer is there is no answer, er, no solution that is.
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IE7 has some real “issues” with objects. Things must be in constrained boxes or it can’t handle them.
Putting embeds in their own area with div tags might solve the problem, but you have no guarantees as to what the CSS will do with the tags.
I have to tell some lies to get my img tags to work predictably, so that may be all that’s necessary.
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IE7 emerged just as I was finishing a large AJAX-based project for a client. The product worked fine in every other major browser… including IE6… but some sort of timing anomaly caused frequent failures in IE7. We found a workaround without ever understanding the cause. IMHO, IE7 sucks, and not just a little bit.
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It’s 7 degrees here and I haven’t the will to do anything but hibernate. When you going to get back to blogging old man?
Hey, DBK! Come back to blogging! You were always a voice of sanity… and snark, of course…
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