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Dang it, Internet Explorer FUCKING SUCKS!

I try to be all cool and embed a Google Map in a blog post and IE won’t even display my blog anymore!

More information here: Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site, Operation aborted “Google Map API error”

Update:

IE doesn’t allow changing HTML tables via DOM until they are fully rendered.

So enclosing your code in a function and triggering it using setTimeout, e.g.:

setTimeout("display_map()", 1);

Seems to get around this limitation that I LOST two hours of my life to. How much of your life has IE taken lately? Download Firefox.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:46pm

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Mush
1/26/06 3:29pm

I recently remodelled my entire site because I couldn’t get the old template to render in IE. I think I spent about six hours on it, trolling for answers, tweaking code… but so many people still use IE that one still has to make one’s site look nice in it. Argh.

justin
1/30/06 6:06pm

There are so many nice tweaks I’ve made with the adjacency selector on CSS (+) that just don’t show in IE. Luckily it just makes me site look kinda sorta crappy—which I think is funny, since the reason so many people have stuck with IE is because “sites look weird in other browsers.”

James
3/15/07 6:28pm

5 hours so far and it still isn’t working. Using code igniter to further obfuscate things. YAY!!!! not