Posted by SpaceGirl on 11/23/07 14:24

On Nov 16, 6:12 pm, "Mika" <a...@anon.com> wrote:
> Hello, we understand you guys may be able to help.
>
> We have a page which has been working great for over a year and gets many
> hits. However recently something got changed that we cannot seem to find,
> and now *sometimes* if you refresh the page (generally while it is still
> loading) in IE7, we get the popup window error:
>
> Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site...
> Operation aborted
>
> Here is an example of the page in question:http://tinyurl.com/35mwxr[broadband recommended]
>
> We appreciate you may have other comments on the site such as the size of
> the pages, however we are not looking to change that at present, with faster
> broadband becoming more abundant. Search engine listings alert the user
> that broadband is recommended for this technology.
>
> As we said, the site worked great, but for this unknown reason now needs
> some sort of a tweak to fix. The changes we made before it happened were
> related to the body tag but they have been completely undone yet the issue
> remains :-S
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone able to find the cure for us to test.
>
> Regards,
> Mika @ SHS.com

I'd seriously consider re-engineering your site. You could could do
this FAR more efficiently using AJAX, and also remove most of the
browser issues you're seeing.It'll require much less of a heavy
workload on the browser, so you'll find it faster and smaller. Also
you wont be loading in images (shops) that aren't actually visible on
the screen until they scroll into view, so you'll probably save a
stack of traffic.

Again, alternative, do it in Flash.

I'd really go back to the drawingboard on this one - I don't think you
have a bad idea, but it's very poorly executed. Even if you fix the
issues you're having now, you'll just hit more down the line (or see
poor traffic due to errors that users will never bother to report -
they will just go elsewhere).

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