IE 6 cant open my website but IE 7 and firefox can

IE 6 wont show the page but IE 7 and firefox can. In i IE6 it says:

Internet Explore can´t open http://www.cleanairsystems.dk/

Operation aborted

Try for yourself if you got IE 6 is it something with the .htaccess file?

Really need help as fast as possible!

I don’t see anything obvious. It might be an interaction between your three js scripts or maybe IE6 doesn’t like all the self-closing tags (which don’t match your doctype).

Check this out: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleanairsystems.dk%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

The first error listed suggests a possible cause of the problem.

It might also help to do a "view source" when IE6 chokes and see if there’s anything there.

If you have this in your content:

change it to this:

and see if that fixes it -- there is a major bug in IE6 with JavaScript and the base tag when it uses the short closing tag form, but only rears it’s head with certain scripts.

The problem is SWFobject. You need to add the defer="defer" to the javascript call or it will fail in IE6.

I documented this here but it seems that it is either not a problem for everyone (maybe related to doctype or something) or many people do not test in IE6 since I have to edit this every time I use SWFObject (either the snippet or the actual script). Anyway, this will fix the problem.

Sounds like a good basic patch release upgrade is in order in the Repo. Any problems with other browsers by implementing this?

Quote from: dev_cw at Nov 21, 2008, 09:33 AM

The problem is SWFobject. You need to add the defer="defer" to the javascript call or it will fail in IE6.

I documented this here but it seems that it is either not a problem for everyone (maybe related to doctype or something) or many people do not test in IE6 since I have to edit this every time I use SWFObject (either the snippet or the actual script). Anyway, this will fix the problem.

Hmm, that’s interesting, though I think we’re solving the same bug in two different ways here... it’s not just SWFObject that causes this either, I used UFO when encountering this IE6 bug and changing the base tag solved it.

rthrash: Not that I am aware of. This is documented on the web but not as much as I would expect since it ultimately breaks the site in IE6. I have this on a few sites now and have not had any problems (not sure if it validates, need to check on this it seems to validate no problem).

OpenGeek: In my testing SWFObject gives this error with the base tag fix as well, that was the first thing I tried but it did not help (but seems to work as well).

Its now fixed and the solution was this piece of code:

<base href="[(site_url)]"></base>

Thanks!

Quote from: need4speed at Nov 21, 2008, 12:24 PM

Its now fixed and the solution was this piece of code:
<base href="[(site_url)]"></base>

Er? I wonder why that did not work for me (I wonder if doctype has an influence)? Oh, well, as long as it is fixed