Trouble with IE, maybe Lightbox or Highslide to blame?

[alpay]

Hello all, I have searched the forums and found some discussion about the Lightbox plugin, and some compatibility issues with Highslide no solution has helped me. I am having problems with IE loading my blog and immediately bombing out with a dialog box "Internet Explorer can not open the Internet site... Operation Aborted". I do not see the issue with Firefox or Safari.

I used Highslide for several posts and all was ok. I created a new post using Lightbox and found they interfered with each other in addition to creating the IE problem. I then converted ALL my posts with Highslide images to use Lightbox instead (much easier markup). I am still having the same trouble with IE however. If I paste the actual article URL (with lightbox images it) into IE, then it is fine, it only is trouble on the first page.

I googled the issue and found a solution for Wordpress users where they must move the Lightbox code from the header to the footer, if Lightbox is invoked at the end of the page, IE is happy. Any suggestions how I might do this, or perhaps there is another solution?

Thanks in advance.

Alpay

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Can you show the WP solution? We should be able to easily apply this to the lightbox plugin then...

Regards,
Garvin

[alpay]

Thank You!

here is one of the simpler directions for wordpress users:
http://www.lancelhoff.com/fixing-the-op ... ss-plugin/

seemingly the same solution listed at this site:
http://johnr.us/operation-aborted-error ... -explorer/

and this site gives a great deal more info on what is breaking IE but it is over my head:
http://www.clientcide.com/code-snippets ... n-aborted/

my blog is at http://blog.litstudios.com and as mentioned, I don't have a problem if I paste a url directly to an article... The first page has a JWplayer embedded as well as a couple of vimeo embeds. I saw the same chatter on Adobe's forum's about Lightbox breaking golive sites fwiw.

Thanks for the assitance.

Alpay

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Maybe you could edit your serendipity_event_lightbox.php file and replace "frontend_header" with "frontend_footer"? There should be two occassions. I sadly no longer have a IE6 to test it with, so maybe you can tell?

I do think that this error only happens when lightbox is combined with SWFObject / JWPlayer. When used with no other JS API libraries, I think one doesn't get those problems.

Putting the scripts in the bottom is actually not the best solution for other browsers, also because it's not really valid. So for the long-run we'd have to maybe create a new configuration option to place the content in the footer only for people that use more than only lightbox, and leave it with the valid header version for people by default...?

Regards,
Garvin

[alpay]

Thanks for the help.

I tried replacing "_header" with "_footer" and all it did was break the Lightbox functionality in all browsers... it acted like a regular Href link. Now I'm wondering if there is an alternative that works well with the other embedded methods.... any suggestions?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Did the javascript then still appear on the output of your blog? If it did not, maybe something in the replacement didn't work. If it showed up in the HTML at the end of the page, and didn't fix things, it'll be a bit harder for me/us to inspect.

Well, especially for me, as I don't have IE6

Regards,
Garvin

[alpay]

Sorry, not sure what you mean exactly... I'm not a total noob but I do get confused sometimes...

The embedded swf players on the page do work... the lightbox instances act like lightbox isn't present at all when I switched header to footer, acted like a regular <a href... in all browsers. when I removed Highslide, I had to also remove the highslide entries from my .tpl and .css and I removed the highslide folder altogether to be on the safe side (just in case it's being called from anywhere else). I'm pretty sure that's completely out of the mix, so like you said, something's up with the embedded players in combination with Lightbox.

Thank you Garvin

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Could you maybe give a link to your site, when you have the lightbox edited so that you replaced 'header' with 'footer'? Then I could check your output...

Regards,
Garvin

[alpay]

I switched it back when I saw Lightbox2 was not working. If it's ok, I'll switch it tomorrow and report back to you.

Thanks for your time on this.

[jarppis]

I do have the same error message with IE7, when I posted couple MP4 videos using the podcast plugin. If I remove those two videos, IE7 works fine.

This is the MS link that describes the problem, but I'm not sure which part of the code is causing the operation abort http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917

With IE8, it doesn't give the error, but it doesn't load the whole blog page.