Posted on 08/02/2008 4:03:55 AM PDT by dennisw
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Another MS update?
I have been using SiteMeter on my many, many websites/blogs for many years now—I have never had one problem.
I do have IE but rarely use it, I also have Firefox, and Netscape which I use all the time.
Re the MS (Windows Update) problem of a few weeks ago....it screwed up this PC badly—I could not even restart the machine. Luckily a friend is employed in that field and he managed to get it going again—new harddrive.
This update?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/07/10/nwindows110.xml
Your sites make not work for those who use Internet Explorer unless sitemeter code is stripped out-—Maybe
I just checked my sites that use sitemeter with IE and no problems????
dennisw:
Thank you for the heads up on this one—I made SiteMeter aware of the possible problems....
Your homepage @FR is first class! I like those flag pics!
Here’s another, screensaver....
http://i37.tinypic.com/2llh5z8.jpg
Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
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Microsoft of today is the GM of the 70’s and 80’s. Poor engineering based on out-of-date designs, sold to you with the home that the new chrome-plated plastic and vinyl roof will convince you that it’s a good product. Ditch it folks. There’s Apple and Linux out there to show you what actual quality is.
Thanks a million for posting this. ALL our sites are crashing (I can access them via Mozilla Firefox though) and I thought it was the server, but all our sites have SiteMeter. I’m in the process of taking out the SiteMeter code. Thanks again soooooo much!
Welcome!
All yesterday I had to access sitemeter sites with Firefox
Lots of sites and blogs seem fixed today. Maybe the big blog hosts fixed it globally for their users
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog.
Operation aborted
I have seen this message a lot, before today!
Thanks for the screen saver. I have to clean up my freep homepage. It’s a bit messy. Glad you like the flags there!
This is a sitemeter problem. The fact that Firefox appears to be unaffected may be related to the fact that Firefox developed the code for sitemeter.
But the code doesn’t run on Firefox either. I just doesn’t block loading the site.
Sitemeter is and ad server. You can remove the problem permanently by going to Tools/Security/Restricted Zone and adding *.sitemeter.com to the sites list.
While you are at it you can add other ad servers, such as *.doubleclick.net.
This must be the problem we were talking about last night with Michelle Malkin’s site and others.
I have sitemeter on one of my sites too. I’ve been able to get in it just fine? I can’t get on sitemeter itself though! LOL.
Interesting. I can get into all of the sites I frequent with FireFox buy get the abort message with IE.
Interesting that everyone on the net is talking about this except the people who caused the problem. Sitemeter is MIA.
Even if it’s an IE bug, who the hell releases code that doesn’t work on 70% of the browsers in use, and crashes thousands of unsuspecting sites?
There is an upside to this. I’ve learned to permanently block sitemeter and other ad servers.
In order to access websites I went into Tools and made sitemer a restricted site so now I can go to web sites even if they have not stripped off sitemeter and see them.
Worked like a charm, thanks for the tip. Just to add, it's Tools/Internet Options/Security/Restricted Sites/Sites (IE 7), but you knew that already ;).
- Traveler
That will fix the problem on the client side.
Technically this is not a IE7 bug, but rather a problem on the server side. The web page author wrongly embedded a tag for <SCRIPT HREF="http://foo.sitemeter.com/foo.js" > inside a block element (such as <TABLE>). That's a no-no per the standard and results in undefined behavior.
To fix on the server side the web admin needs to move the script tag from inside the table down to the bottom of the HTML, just before the </BODY> tag.
Undefined behavior is, well, undefined. Anything can happen. Microsoft cannot be accused of standards non-compliance in this case. On the other hand you can make an argument that IE7 should be follow Postel's Law better like the other browsers seem to do.
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