Microsoft Sucks

[acroyear]

They have really made it impossible to debug in IE7.  For whatever reason, when there's an AJAX error, it immediately pops up a dialog saying "it can't download this page" (even though most of the page is already rendered) and THEN goes to the page that tells me my connection is broken.

And this is "localhost", mind you.  As such, I can't get to a "view source" or any other debugging tool to try to tell me what the hell it thought was wrong.

bastards.

Comments

[faeriquene.livejournal.com]

I feel you. I have the same issue with ASP. I occasionally get useful error messages, but usually only to tell me that I did something silly-dumb, like "unterminated string constant." Have you tried Firefox or other browsers with any more success? (I have not at this point.)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Firefox works artistically well. not even a javascript warning. Hell, my pages even work in the cheap-ass windows version of Safari, without change.

Trouble is, I can't go to my customers (even within the company) and say "just use firefox". It HAS to work in IE(7) and now IE is utterly unwilling to tell me what's wrong.

As i said, i get no error messages other than "Operation Aborted", followed by a sudden redirect to Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

None of which is of any use without some sort of debugging console.

Yes I've mucked around with disabling add-ons and all the javascript settings and it gets one page to work but another continues to fail.

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

The next step for me would be to start commenting stuff out and try to find where the code causing the error is. At least, that's what I did when I had problems in ASP applications.

I can't help.

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

However. I read that as "lolhost" and wondered what was funny.

[faeriquene.livejournal.com]

Oh, i know exactly what page in IE you mean. I get it all the time. :-)

I just figured if it didn't work in IE, it might also not work in Firefox, etc, but you'd get more helpful error message. I totally understand about it needing to work across platforms. But if it WORKS in firefox, but fails in IE...ick.

[faeriquene.livejournal.com]

Do you know sometimes when I get that problem, i have to actually delete (not comment out, but delete) all of my code, and start inserting little by little to detect the problem. Commenting out everything but, say, < html > tags still breaks IE. >:( grr, arg.

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, I can't go to my customers (even within the company) and say "just use firefox".

Yes you can! I hereby give you permission! You can tell them I said so!