Sometimes visitors to your Joomla! site using Internet Explorer have trouble loading pages, getting an error saying:
'Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.\<your site>/<your page>.html. Operation aborted'
I had this same problem happening on my site. I could not see the error myself as I am using IE 8, but visitors using a lower IE version frequently had this issue.
Apparently the error is caused by some scripting error, Microsoft admits there is a problem and recommends updating Internet Explorer to version 8, which solves the issue.
But not all users can update their IE version, or company policy prohibits to use a new, untested version on their company hardware. To accomodate all visitors, you will need to adjust your site to prevent this problem from interfering with your visitor's browsing experience.
I checked out this issue today after a visitor complaint, and came up with the following easy fix:
- Download component ReReplacer from the Joomla! Extensions site
- Install ReReplacer via Extensions | Install/Uninstall
- Go to the component via Components | ReReplacer
- Click the New icon to create a new item
- In the Name field in Details, type DomReady Replace (or something else to identify the item)
- In Search & Replace:
- type domready in the Search box
- type load in the Replace box
- In Search Areas, select Everywhere in the Enable in area dropdown box
- Click the Save icon, and check if the item is published
- Clean the cache by going to Tools | Clean Cache, select everything and click the Delete icon
- Clean the expired cache by going to Tools | Purge Expired Cache and click the Purge expired icon
The problem is now solved!
Robin Roelofsen
"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface."
Jaron Lanier
