It can be a lot of fun to develop web pages for Internet Explorer. Without further ado, here are two pages I have prepared just for you:
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“Operation Aborted” message. This is just an odd error message that you get when loading a page. If you have a script inside a form, and the script calls createElement while the page is loading, Internet Explorer fails to load the page.
- Internet Explorer crash. As a courtesy, this page prompts before crashing. There page has many facets that must be present for the crash to occur, yet the code is surprisingly simple.
Who’s says you need to be ashamed about creating pages that can only serve their purpose in Internet Explorer?
Enjoy.
Hey, I luv it! Thanks, I’m posting this on my site…
–lucentwarrior
Comment by Mark Nisly [Visitor] — October 12, 2005 @ 8:50 am
Based on your blog description, which says you’re “generally biased against Microsoft”, I thought you might use this to make a statement about Microsoft. Nevertheless, I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed your Internet Explorer experience!
Comment by Matthias Miller [Member] — October 12, 2005 @ 10:11 am
I have spent literally the better part of the day trying to find out why I was getting Operation Aborted on my site, after adding Javascript-based Drop Downs to replace those stupid IE boxes appearing over floating content… Not only does it seem to happen inside of forms with createElement, but also inside of tables!
Thanks for helping me pinpoint the IE bug so I could circumvent it!
Comment by Mark Ormston [Visitor] — October 20, 2005 @ 3:13 pm
Excellent. I’m glad this was helpful!
Comment by Matthias Miller [Member] — October 20, 2005 @ 3:24 pm
Thank you for this example. After spending half a day trying to figure this out, I came to your site. It is helpful.
-Guna
Comment by Guna D [Visitor] — June 3, 2006 @ 2:21 pm
Since this shows up as the number one hit when googled for I figured I would add this little item I found to actually resolve this issue.
If you add defer=defer to your script tag it will not execute the script until the page has been loaded thus preventing this error.
Comment by Matt [Visitor] — November 17, 2006 @ 7:43 am
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blog.outofhanwell.com, how do you do it?
Comment by Merle — March 10, 2010 @ 8:37 am