Internet Explorer Problems?

Apparently Internet Explorer (IE) has a problem with Google's Blogger and add-ons (such as the menu widget for the labels, the movie add-on, the pictures add-on, the music add-on, etc., etc., etc.

Microsoft Internet Explorer Logo

I knew there was a reason I started using Firefox! If you are one of those folks using IE and you get an error message essentially like this:

Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site
http://winjama.blogspot.com.
Operation aborted

Don't worry, I'm working on it. A friend of mine, Scott, whom I met when he and his dad, Mack, visited us here in Corozal, gave me a temporary fix as well as some links to info on rearranging my code so the problem goes away.

Scott said, "Microsoft is notorious for providing error messages that mean nothing but I think I’ve figured it out anyway. It appears IE has a specific problem parsing the page when add-on’s are enabled."

"A temporary solution to this issue is to ask the affected users (in Internet Explorer) to:

Go to Tools->Manage Add-Ons, and disable the Windows Messenger addon."

That should be the short-term fix. Longer term is going to require me to move some of my code around so IE thinks that everything is ok. That may take a few days as I try to squeeze it in between swimming, the odd Belikin, walking the dogs, and 3-hour breakfasts, etc.

I appologize for any problems this all may have caused any of you who use IE. I'd like to recommend switching to Firefox - but, I won't do that.

Have you considered switching to Firefox?...

I'll make another post when I think I've got the problem solved.

On another note, from what I've been reading today, IE8, when it comes out for mass consumption, may solve the problem by itself, as in it will deal with the problem the way other browsers deal with it by allowing the code to display as it wants to. We'll see. I'm going to work on changing the code just in case.

Cheers,
Dave