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."
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