Internet explorer problem error 'Operation Aborted'

[SteveT]

Is anyone else having problems with internet explorer having problems connecting to your user page with a message “Internet explorer cannot open the site http://www.panoramio.com/user/****** operation aborted” regularly coming up, repeated screen refreshes then allow access sometimes. Using Mozilla Firefox browser seems not to have this problem.
Is it just IE or is Panoramio a cause of this?

Stephen

[skida]

I have been getting this or a similar message occasionally when I use the "Go Back" arrow after looking at someone's photo. I am using BT Broadband's version of IE.

[Bruce da Moose]

Yeah, I get this a bit. I suspect it will go as it came, quietly and without warning.

~ Bruce

[photodegraff]

I have been having the same problem for the last two days. Ran a check on my connectivity and it came back OK so it doesn't appear to be my ISP.

Rob

[SteveT]

I have just emailed questions@panoramio / Eduardo to see if recent changes could be a cause of this. An article on the net suggest it might be associated with Google Maps API and there is a fix from Microsoft for IE6 but not IE7 at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884022

This problem is causing me to switch to Mozilla Firefox, as just now it took 13 screen refreshes of IE7 to get to my first page of pics.


PS.
and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927917 refer to this problem. I'am afraid this is beyond my understanding of the problem.
Can we have some HELP! please.


Stephen

[Kris Minnear]

I have been having the problem since 10/20/08. I use NetZero Dial-Up and IE7. I get the error wether I am viewing my pages or other's pages. Not sure why this would have anything to with Google Maps, but I am no programmer.
Glad to know I am not alone, but a little concerned that more have not reported the problem.

Kris

[gort]

I'm having the same problems as mentioned above, as anybody come up with a conclusion yet, as to what' up?

[Juergen Roesener]

I'm having the same problem with IE7 too, using three computers and two ISPs. FireFox works fine.

Jürgen

[★TU★]

Quote SteveT:

Is anyone else having problems with internet explorer having problems connecting to your user page with a message “Internet explorer cannot open the site http://www.panoramio.com/user/****** operation aborted” regularly coming up, repeated screen refreshes then allow access sometimes. Using Mozilla Firefox browser seems not to have this problem.
Is it just IE or is Panoramio a cause of this?

Stephen

I am having similar problems.
By using IE7, I couldn't log in. I couldn't enter my page. I couldn't display any photo page. And I couldn't post any messages to Forum.

Using Fire Fox, I can do them. However the condition is unstable.

Now I deleted all cockies. I post this message by using IE7.
My true account is ID 59925. But I can't login it.
So I am using another account now.

Last night I have sent e-mail to Panoramio administrator regarding this problem.

[patt roche]

Having the same problem about 90% of the time for a couple days now. Very surprised that it is working OK at the moment.

[SteveT]

I have now tried 5 different machines (all running XP) with 3 different accounts and all are having this same problem.
So far no word from the team on this issue.

Stephen

[© L K Kelley]

After searching for this problem on Microsoft's site, I determined that they know all about this problem. Some say it has to do with SKYPE, but I do not have this program, so it isn't the base reason.

I have IE8, and I have opted, for the moment, to NOT USE IT, because of this problem.

I am using the Opera Browser, because I am not fond of Firefox.

Anyway, who knows how long they will take to fix this problem.

I suggest using another browser until they fix it, and I would also suggest that everyone who uses it complain to Microsoft

[Tony Reid]

The issue affects IE6 and IE7.
It does not affect Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Opera.

The problem arises due to the way that IE handles JavaScript and DOM (Document Object Model).
The problem can also arise when using 3rd party browser add-ins, like SKYPE, but I don't think this is the case in this instance.

This really is a developer (Panoramio) issue.
I would advise them to look at this page, which describes a method to avoid the issue.

Back in 2006, there was an issue with Google Map API on webpages (Panoramio uses something similar) causing the same error. This may be of help to the developers too, but I don't really know the details.

Also, in 2007, it was noted across various tech sites that Sitemeter and Google-Analytics code placed in the wrong part of the HTML page might be the culprit. I think the developers should take a look at this page, and see if they can gleam some information to fix the problem.

My advice in the short term is to use the Google Chrome browser. I have had no issues with it and Panoramio.

Cheers, Tony

[SteveT]

Quote Tony Reid:

The issue affects IE6 and IE7.

This really is a developer (Panoramio) issue.
I would advise them to look at this page, which describes a method to avoid the issue.

Back in 2006, there was an issue with Google Map API on webpages (Panoramio uses something similar) causing the same error. This may be of help to the developers too, but I don't really know the details.

Also, in 2007, it was noted across various tech sites that Sitemeter and Google-Analytics code placed in the wrong part of the HTML page might be the culprit. I think the developers should take a look at this page, and see if they can gleam some information to fix the problem.

Cheers, Tony

Thank you for that Tony, I have also noticed that in Mozilla Firefox, as a new page of photos comes to screen that briefly a message come up on the bottom rail that panoramio is transfering info from Google Analytics and not too GA. I am wondering because this problem has been going on for a week only,are the team trying to make use of Google Analytics and have implimented a error in code? This is only a weakly pointed suggestion as an idea.


Stephen

[Tony Reid]

Steve,
Panoramio has used google-analytics links for a very long time.
My guess is that they have implemented some change to the code that generates the HTML pages.

>From memory, I think that this line may be different:-

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script><script type="text/javascript">var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-184567-1");pageTracker._initData();pageTracker._trackPageview("");</script> <script src="/js/jquery-1.2.1.pack.v1.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 

This is a guess on my part, but it does feature DOM code, JavaScript, and Google-Analytics, which all feature in the example links I posted earlier.

Cheers, Tony

[SteveT]

Quote Tony Reid:

Sorry Tony this is getting a little bit above my head.
But as a side issue to this I have succeed in copying the GA generated code into my Fototime site and got Google Analytics working. You say Panoramio has had GA implimented for some time.
I tried setting a GA acount for Panoramio with just my user ID, but repeatedly had no sucess. Do you know where and how to copy and paste the GA code or any other steps needed to make GA work with Panoramio.

By the way as another side issue, I've found that Mozilla Firefox browser 3.0.3. has issues allowing Panoramio users to log in and out of accounts and the same in using the forum.

thanks

Stephen

[Stefano Mascioli]

Just my 2 cents.

1) the access to forum pages or to photo pages are not affected. The problem exist accessing the user page.

2) the problem exist only using Explorer after the last week, and with the automatic update abilitated.

3) I have tested Firefox and Crome, and there is no problem with those browsers...

Cheers, Stefano

[mald]

Having same problems with explorer whilst trying to view my photos, Problem is not appearing when using Computer running on Vista , must be an xp problem , Would be nice to have a response from the team , see if they have noticed this current problem .

[Tony Reid]

Mald, I have both XP and Vista, and the issue occurs with IE7 on both Operating Systems.


Tony

[mald]

Well problem seems to greater than i first thought , Having a job trying to load new pictures , Pages dont stay on long enough before ,there aborted

[Paula K]

I have been having problems all week and it is driving me mad! I am running Vista on one computer and XP on the other and the problem is the same on both, so must be a problem with Pano and IE7. I am going to try Google Chrome and see what happens! I shall watch with interest!

[Matthew Walters]

Google Chrome works fine, although I haven't experienced the problem with IE7/Vista/XP.

Matthew

[patt roche]

I just downloaded Opera and am able to access Panoramio using it with no problems so far but it is annoying to have a separate browser just to access my panoramio pictures.

[Galatas ©]

Firefox with Windows XP works perfectly.

[T NL]

Quote Galatas:

Firefox with Windows XP works perfectly.

+1.

Same story for Safari on Mac and Firefox on both Vista and Mac.

[SteveT]

I have just downloaded Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for XP SP3 and found that the 'operation aborted' problem seems have gone BUT due partial page downloads I have to refresh each page twice or three times before it completely downloads even the forum does not refresh properly, and is a lot slower that Firefox or Chrome. I will put IE8 through some more functions tomorrow.
I agree Chrome works OK but the font size on Tags changes to a very small font if you change user. Gozilla Firefox 3.0.3. seems OK until you try to switch user accounts and you find you don't seem to get logged off to be able to log on to the other account.

Stephen

Perhaps these are just some more of the change over pains we have to go through.

[skida]

It is strange that this problem seems to be affecting people differently, ie: Some people are getting more trouble than others using the same browser/OS combination.

I am using BT's version of IE7 on XP and the only time I get the error message is occasionally when I "go back" to a gallery after viewing a photo. I have not had any trouble when uploading photos or clicking on a thumbnail to see a photo. It has only happened when I have clicked the back arrow.

Could it have something to do with an individual's browser settings?

[Jessica G.]

Very strange. I haven't encountered this problem at all - I'm using Firefox with Windows XP.

[hs238]

Quote skida:

Could it have something to do with an individual's browser settings?

That is very posible as I have to change computers to upload new photos This one does not hace the Aborted problem very much! but I can not upload photos the other has many "Aborted" problems but I can upload photos, I am running IE7 and XP on both (Home on this one and Pro on the other) but either way it is in the developers hands to fix as there are many more people accessing Panoramio than read the forum so a work around is not the optium solution. Either Panoramio need their site to work with IE or Microsoft need to look at the issue from a IE stand point. This is more likely the prefered as I am sure that this is not the only site that has this problem with IE but is harder to achieve!

[☆Tomoaki Ueda☆]

When the blank page would be displayed with IE8-beta/Vista or the proccess was aborted with IE7/Vista, please push F5-key. The problem would be resolved. The meaning of pushing F5-key is reloading.

[SteveT]

Quote ☆Tomoaki Ueda☆:

When the blank page would be displayed with IE8-beta/Vista or the proccess was aborted with IE7/Vista, please push F5-key. The problem would be resolved. The meaning of pushing F5-key is reloading.

This does work most of the time but when it takes 13 or 14 attemps in IE7 and 2 or 3 in IE8 at a screen refresh by pressing F5 this is not really a solution to the problem.

Stephen

[☆Tomoaki Ueda☆]

Quote SteveT:

Yes. Of course you are perfectly right.
This solution is only for Panoramio users.
I hope that this problem will be resolved perfectly by Google, Panoramio or Microsoft.

[© L K Kelley]

It is also affecting IE8, too.

Safari, Firefox, and Opera, to my knowledge, are just fine.

[The Battle Painter]

Quote Smiley4554:

It is also affecting IE8, too.

Safari, Firefox, and Opera, to my knowledge, are just fine.

Also Chrome works O.K.

[patt roche]

Quote Smiley4554:

It is also affecting IE8, too.

Safari, Firefox, and Opera, to my knowledge, are just fine.

. . . almost. I downloaded Opera and all was well until I uploaded a few photos and added a google tool bar to Opera - now I am unable to log in to panoramio from Opera. Can go through the motions a dozen times but never get logged in. This visit is due to one of the rare cooperative moments with IE.

[Paula K]

I have turned to Google Chrome and it is working perfectly, the font size in some part is small, but clear enough.

[© Andre Speek]

I'm pretty sure it is a Microsoft IE Error, occuring since a recent Windows Update I guess... Other websites that use similar techniques like Panoramio does (for example www.linkedin.com) have similar problems... Fetching the same page with FireFox doesn't give any errors... I haven't tried it myself but Google Chrome, Opera or Safari will work fine as well...

[Tony Reid]

Andre, I have tried it across a range of browsers (and is fine on all of them except MS) - see my earlier posts.

It occurs on IE6/IE7
Others have stated it occurs on IE8-Beta
It occurs on pre-October patch release XP/Vista machines. Meaning I don't have auto-update enabled on my XP/Vista machines - and I still got the error.

I have just patched both PCs (running IE7) with the very latest MS updates. Time for some more testing.

Andre, have a read of my earlier posts and let me know if you understand what I am saying. =)

Cheers,

Tony
(time to put Live Msger on I think)

[☆Tomoaki Ueda☆]

Now I can see my top page perfectly by using IE7.
IE8-beta is Ok, too.
The problem of error seems to disappear.
Wonderful!

[© Andre Speek]

Quote Tony Reid:

Hi Tony,

The problem as was targeted I think very well in the earlier post, coming down to the MS KB item http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927917 in which Microsoft acknowledges it is in fact a bug. It might be due to a Microsoft update, or that might be a coincedence and it's due to a change in the Google scripts that we notice this now. The part of the script which you are referring to is indeed the code where the error is.

Unfortunately, we can't change the Google scripts nor can we fix Internet Explorer so we will have to wait until one of them comes up with a solution.

I feel that the final solution should come from Microsoft since other websites that don't use the Google API have the same problem as well.

Grtz,

Andre

( set MSN_ON = True )

[SteveT]

Things seem to be working a lot better this morning both on IE8 and IE7.
Well pleased!

Stephen



Just as a note GE grey squares that turned to blue a few days ago are back to grey this morning.

[The Battle Painter]

Yes, today all works properly with IE7. Who changed? Microsoft or Panoramio?

[Bruce da Moose]

Here, too, operation now seems normal

~ Bruce

[SteveT]

Same issues have returned, am now getting intermitent 'operation aborted' in IE8 beta 2 as well and screen refreshes required to get the screen to display.
I never did get any reply from two emails sent to questions at panoramio.com for this problem.



Stephen

[Kris Minnear]

Your right, Steve. The problem is back again today (10/28/08). Everything seemed ok yesterday.

[ianwstokes]

I can move around as much as I like in the forum, but when I’m in the pictures pages I get the error on almost every other link. I need to catch up answering some comments to my picture but it’s a big struggle.

[gort]

Is anybody looking into this problem?, it's driving me nuts!

[Panamon-Creel]

Some users in the language forums have mentioned that a IE Browser Cache reload ( SHIFT + F5) did work for them.

[© Andre Speek]

Quote Panamon_Creel:

Some users in the language forums have mentioned that a IE Browser Cache reload ( SHIFT + F5) did work for them.

The plain old F5 also works if you keep trying. Usually if I get the "Illegal Operation" error, I need to refresh 3 or 4 times and then the page pops up without any error.

Seems to me the problem isn't in the Panoramio page itself, otherwise the error would stay and should not be resolved after a refresh. Most likely (I think) it's from one of the Google Analytics includes that run in the background.

[tempestlight]

I'm sick of this problem every time i use this site. I can't show my photos to anyone cause they get the error message and give up. I can't see my own page most of the time. It's 2008 and we still have problems like this with html? what's going on and how could something like this happen?

[anur]

Quote © Andre Speek:

Guys,

You both (Andre and Tony) have programming knowledge. In the same time, you blame Microsoft Internet Explorer ver. x for abortions in Panoramio system. It does not make sense to me. To write good software means (as well as other things) to go around all bugs and problematic behaviours of each layer of operating system, compiler, interpreter, browser, etc. Additionally, the good software must be tested prior to releasing. I can clearly see, that the Panoramio team does not do its programming job.

While waiting for a better version of the Panoramio system, I am using the method of counting to three. If the Operation Aborted message apears to me the third time during a session, I shall quit Panoramio and go somewhere else.

Best regards - Antoni

[© Andre Speek]

Quote anur:

You both (Andre and Tony) have programming knowledge. In the same time, you blame Microsoft Internet Explorer ver. x for abortions in Panoramio system. It does not make sense to me. To write good software means (as well as other things) to go around all bugs and problematic behaviours of each layer of operating system, compiler, interpreter, browser, etc. Additionally, the good software must be tested prior to releasing. I can clearly see, that the Panoramio team does not do its programming job.

While waiting for a better version of the Panoramio system, I am using the method of counting to three. If the Operation Aborted message apears to me the third time during a session, I shall quit Panoramio and go somewhere else.

Well, bugs come in a different levels, shapes and sizes. As far as I can tell here, the bug is in all browsers except IE7, because IE7 now seems to handle this as it should be handled. Still, because programmers didn't notice (or didn't care too much) this too much, they have gotten away with this until now. Since IE7 isn't any longer going to accept the faulty code, now it shows.

Example:

In HTML it is "required" to open and close all formating tags. Bold text should start with <b> and should end somewhere with </b>. If a programmer forgets the </b>, no browser will have too much trouble with that eventhough it is mandatory in the HTML standard. Since it doesn't show, it's quite common that closing tags (the </b> in this case) are overlooked by the programmer, tester and also by the user.

Now if for some reason a browser would no longer accept such "sloppy programming", who is to blame? The one who makes the rules, the one who makes the browser or the one who did the programming?

Now to make it even more difficult, the error isn't from Panoramio code, but from an external Google script that also afects other websites.

I use a simple solution. For work I need to work with Internet Explorer and I'm happy with that browser, so I use it for most other websites too. For visiting Panoramio and some other websites that have problems in IE7, I use Mozilla FireFox.

I tried Chrome as well, but the first version still had some bugs and I don't like the interface. Opening a tab on my Windows Vista machine takes less then a second. Maybe this takes less then less then a second with Chrome, but I don't see much advantage in that. But hey, that's my opinion and it's all a matter of taste and a matter of the operating system/hardware you are running.

There is no law that you can only choose one browser. They're all free for download (or come with the Operating System) and not even Microsoft prevents (or can prevent) that you install them all if that's what you like. We have several machines with a number of browsers to test and compare the results.

And remember, everybody has freedom of choice on their browser, use that freedom !

p.s. I only wish people would respect the choice that others make a little more...

[SteveT]

Thank you Andre
for your comment but I have a feeling nobody is listening to us on the forum. I sent two emails to Questions at Panoramio.com nearly a month ago on this subject and have yet to recieve any sort of reply nor has any comment been left here regarding measures under investigation.
Has aynyone had a relpy from the team on any subject in the last month after fielding a question via the email route?

There are problems with IE7 IE8 Firefox 3.0.3 and Chrome regarding this problem, IE7 is by far the worst, and Chrome being the best as far as I am concerned.

Can I say that the Moderators should clearly identify themselves on this forum as we do not know who is who. A list of moderators under 'Questions and support' in 'Forum Moderation' should exist.

There is also a problem going on in that the map ALL tag does not seem to getting past the 10 million mark.

Either we are about to get an amazing upgrade worth the wait, or the Goggle take over has distracted our fellow Panoramio programers away from solving these problems. Perhaps a little better communication would be helpful.

Stephen

A keen and devout Panoramio member

[Panamon-Creel]

Quote SteveT:

Has aynyone had a relpy from the team on any subject in the last month after fielding a question via the email route?

Yes I've heard from them and they are working on it as much as they can but if you've read the reply of Andre you'll see that the issue is not only with Panoramio but also with other sites that are calling up the external Google script that is in essence the culprit.

Quote SteveT:

There are problems with IE7 IE8 Firefox 3.0.3 and Chrome regarding this problem, IE7 is by far the worst, and Chrome being the best as far as I am concerned.

What problems with FF3 or Chrome are you talking about?
Please be specific since I haven't heard of any problems like the IE problem for which this thread was opened for.

Quote SteveT:

Can I say that the Moderators should clearly identify themselves on this forum as we do not know who is who. A list of moderators under 'Questions and support' in 'Forum Moderation' should exist.

Well I'm a forum Moderator like you've likely seen in the thread you've mentioned.

Quote SteveT:

Either we are about to get an amazing upgrade worth the wait, or the Goggle take over has distracted our fellow Panoramio programers away from solving these problems.

We'll eventually find out

[Joaquín Cuenca Abela]

Hi guys,

the problem is that we have not been able to reproduce this bug in our browsers. I have pushed a change that in theory works around the bug in explorer. In fact, it looks like this "work around" was done in jquery-1.2.2 and we were still using jquery-1.2.1, so I just updated it to the last jquery (branch 1.2.x) hoping that this will kill this bug.

Please let me know if you still have it.

This bug in Explorer only, if you have a problem with another browser then it's most probably unrelated.

Cheers,

[© Andre Speek]

Quote Joaquín Cuenca Abela:

Please let me know if you still have it.

Hello Joaquín,

As far as I can tell, the problem still exists. About 3 out of 10 pagehits give the problem. If the page does show up, the error sign in the IE7 status bar appears. The error that is then returned in Internet Explorer points to:

Line: 345
Char: 1
Error: '_gat' is undefined

Looking in the source, this should point to the script at the bottom of the page:

<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-184567-1&quot;
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview("&quot;
</script>

If I understand correctly, right before that a script is called from Google Analytics: http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js

When I try to download the script and look what's inside it, I get an error that this file does not exists or is not available.

Another common error I found is the reference to firstChild that is also undefined. This is most likely also called from an external script because the object is not referenced in the page source.

If you need more information, or if some testing needs to be done, feel free to contact me (http://home.planet.nl/~speek154/) since i'd like to see the problem solved as much as the next guy...



Cheers,

Andre

[Joaquín Cuenca Abela]

Hi Andre,

The fact that you can't download http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js is worrisome. Maybe there is a problem between your ISP and google servers? are you able to use other google applications?

Are you getting a 404 when you try to download ga.js? Do you get a 404 when you try to download a Panoramio page? or do you get an "Operation aborted"?

"Operation aborted" should be happening (if it still happens) only in IE, the page should be working in Firefox / Chrome / ... If you have problems with other browsers then that's a different problem.

What do you get if you do a ping www.panoramio.com? and if you ping www.google-analytics.com?

Thanks!

[© Andre Speek]

Quote Joaquín Cuenca Abela:

To start with the pings, Panoramio.com replies from 64.233.183.101 and www.google-analytics.com replies from 74.125.79.127. That result made me have a look at http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js again and today I'm able to download the file and as I expected, var _gat=new Object is defined there which explains the '_gat' is undefined error.

I'm not sure how one connects to the other, but it might be caused because the ga.js script is sometimes unavailable due to heavy traffic.

Tracert www.google-analytics.com shows a normal path from my place to Google.com without unexpected hops.

Cheers,

Andre

[Joaquín Cuenca Abela]

I guess you will have the same problem with any site that is using google-analytics, and I don't think it's related to Panoramio being unavailable.

What error messages gives you Panoramio? "Operation aborted" or another error? only in explorer or also in firefox?

Thanks!

[© Andre Speek]

Quote Joaquín Cuenca Abela:

I guess you will have the same problem with any site that is using google-analytics, and I don't think it's related to Panoramio being unavailable.

What error messages gives you Panoramio? "Operation aborted" or another error? only in explorer or also in firefox?

Thanks!

Hi Joaquín,

Indeed, the _gat undefined error is in other websites as well. As I said in earlier posts, I too think the error isn't Panoramio related although one might suggest in removing the Google Analytics references...


Problem with the "Operation aborted" message is that no error is returned to the browser, which makes it hard to find out where it is coming from.

I feel that the earlier provided links hold some interesting suggestions:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927917

http://www.nirmaltv.com/2007/08/08/how-to-fix-internet-explorer-cannot-open-the-internet-site-operation-aborted-error

And this one holds an answer as well:

http://www.bogglethemind.com/index.php?itemid=6

Have you noticed/tried these solutions already..? If you already did, we'll have to keep searching...

Greetz,

Andre

[tempestlight]

Hi all,

Still getting operation aborted message today in IE7. Today it is very bad and can't even see my own photos. It's funny cause I never get this message when in the forum.

Jeff.

[Eduardo Manchón]

Joaquin made some fixes and now 50% of the people reporting the problem said it was fixed, some still have the problem and others say it doesn't happen that often.

For the moment we don't know what else to do in order to fix this problem that actually is a bug in Explorer, for the moment we can only recommend to use other browsers as Firefox or Chrome.

Eduardo

[gorrecz]

Problem confirmed using IE7. Annoying

[Eduardo Manchón]

Did you try with Firefox or Chrome?

[gorrecz]

Quote Eduardo Manchón:

Did you try with Firefox or Chrome?

Confirm that
Firefox 3.0.3 is OK
Google Chrome 0.3.154.9 is OK

Annoying means ironic that I need install Firefox or Chrome to my little sister's computer to viewing photos in Panoramio users accounts Wish one well to Panoramio team the problem with IE will be solved.

[Eduardo Manchón]

Sorry, we tried and we already did something that worked for many people, but this is a real problem built inside Explorer, not a browser compatibility problem.

[gorrecz]

Quote Eduardo Manchón:

Sorry, we tried and we already did something that worked for many people, but this is a real problem built inside Explorer, not a browser compatibility problem.

I know that you do the necessary steps for Panoramio users. I have to wait for IE patch or something else from MS Thank you for reply and have a nice day.

[SteveT]

Quote Eduardo Manchón:

Sorry, we tried and we already did something that worked for many people, but this is a real problem built inside Explorer, not a browser compatibility problem.

Hi Eduaurdo this problem appeared in IE7 possibly through a change in Panoramio or an update in IE7, on or just before the 19th October 08.

I agree that Chrome and Firefox work a lot better but IE8 still requires a load of screen refreshes to get it to work. And IE7 can be virtually impossible to use. Is their any way that a communication can take place with Microsoft to find out exactly where this problem lies.

Stephen

[Herr Sonstiges]

This is really sh...! Since approx. 2 months this problem exists! This is also a method to force users to switch from Microsoft-IE to Google-Chrome (or Opera, Firefox, ...).

Merry Christmas!

H.S.

[Kris Minnear]

[Enter][F5] [Enter][F5]
That's what you must do, to keep Panaramio alive!

So, lets say I am a visitor to Panoramio and I get the error message. After about five refreshes, I think to myself, "Gee, I really want to view BillyBob's photos of Mt. Noplace. I think I will install a different browser."

I don't think that is going to happen in the real world, people. I have no love for Microsoft, but almost every PC I get behind uses IE. I think it is time for Panoramio to find a way around the IE error. What feature in Panoramio would we be giving up if such a change in programming code was made?

I wonder if Microsoft will even address the issue if it only happens here at Panoramio?

Kris

[Cοstas]

Under IE8 I also get this:

HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917

This shouldn't be so hard to fix by Panoramio guys...

[Matthew Walters]

Quote Cοstas:

Quote:

For example, this problem may occur if a DIV element is a child container in a BODY element, and a SCRIPT block in the DIV element tries to modify the BODY element that is a parent container for the DIV element. This is a bug in the Internet Explorer parser.

"This is a big in the Internet Explorer parse"..."If the Web site developers are interested, the More Information for Developers section of this article explains how developers of Web pages can make simple changes to their Web sites that will make them fully-compatible with Internet Explorer 7."

Wouldn't it be better for MS to fix the bug?

Matthew

[sdevries]

Quote Matthew Walters:

The problem still exists. If I'm reading the article right, the problem should be solved in IE8.0, but I'm allready using IE8.

I'm not sure that Microsoft can fix this problem. I do know that IE8 is checking HTML code strictlier, compared to IE7 for example.

[Draken]

[skida]

Quote Draken:

I wonder how soon after Microsoft failed to buy out Google it was that these errors started happening?

Or how long after Google launched Chrome?

[Galatas ©]

Ooooh , I love a conspiracy theory

[senojekips]

Quote Galatas:

Ooooh , I love a conspiracy theory

Me too! I'm wearing my best tinfoil hat.

[Kris Minnear]

After downloading IE8, I no longer get the error message; but instead, I only get a blank screen. After a few refreshes, the page will finally load. So it is a little better now as I don't have to hit "OK" to get rid of the error message I got with IE7.