IE could not open site
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Got this today.
When I clicked "OK", the site worked just fine ...
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I believe it's a sarcastic use of JavaScript to pop up an alert dialog for IE users,
Eg. <script> alert('Internet Explorer cannot blah blah ....'); <script>
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@nuclear_eclipse said:
I believe it's a sarcastic use of JavaScript to pop up an alert dialog for IE users,
Eg. <script> alert('Internet Explorer cannot blah blah ....'); <script>
As far as I know, you can't throw up a Red X Of Doom message box via Javascript. Unless there's some clever way of exploiting exceptions or something.
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Probably an Ajaxy request or a request in an iframe failed. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Incidentally, let me just say that I think IE's error messages are useless! It says nearly the same thing or exactly the same thing for very different error conditions. That makes it difficult to figure out what's wrong on the client end when you didn't experience the error yourself.
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Best of all was the original JScript.dll shipped with IE3: a bug sometimes switched off the error messages so all you ever got was something like 80004005:
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I've been seeing those "cannot open site" message boxes. They started just recently. What gives? Is this the result of a recent Microsoft Update?
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@db2 said:
@nuclear_eclipse said:
I believe it's a sarcastic use of JavaScript to pop up an alert dialog for IE users,
Eg. <script> alert('Internet Explorer cannot blah blah ....'); <script>
As far as I know, you can't throw up a Red X Of Doom message box via Javascript. Unless there's some clever way of exploiting exceptions or something.
I somehow missed the red X, I guess it was my eyes glazing over already from the code I have to work on....
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I had this once too when working with javascript and the dom object model. IE (also IE7 !) is not able to properly handle multiple divs in a hierarchy when working with the dom model and getting stuff by id etc. in my case it simply happened trying to add the google map javascript to my site.
the real wtf here though is not that there is an error, but that after you clicked ok (and as you can see, the site was rendered successfully) you are taken to dnserror.htm and the site disappeared. wtf? it could already render it! just display that damn javascript error