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I recently ran into a problem when I attempted to add wowhead tooltips to my Joomla site.

I simply added a single line javascript include to the head section of my template as explained here...
http://www.wowhead.com/?powered

It worked perfectly under Firefox, but IE6 refused to load at all, giving me a popup about a browser error...



After some experimentation, I discovered that if I added my javascript line to my template AFTER mosShowHead(), the problem went away. With further experimentation, I narrowed the problem down to the <BASE> tag that is turned on because I'm using SEF URLs. As long as the script was included after that tag, IE6 would not load. Not knowing how to actually fix the problem, I just left my include BEFORE mosShowHead().

Then today, while researching an unrelated problem, I came across this page...

http://blog.dotsmart.net/2008/04/21/ie- ... val-error/



So it turns out that the problem is an obscure bug in IE6 regarding the <BASE> tag.

The solution is to modify the way the code for the BASE tag is generated in frontend.php because IE can't be trusted to close it properly itself ...

BEFORE:


AFTER:


Problem solved!

I wanted to add to this excellent post that this solution also resolves a Google Maps issue where pages with maps placed in a content item through the googlemaps plugin would generate the "operation aborted" error on IE6.

We have a 1.15 install and found the frontend.php file in the includes directory.

I applied the fix outlined by Krick and voila, job done, happy boss, happy me.

Thanks to krick for this excellent post.

thanks for thise post

I got this problem report from some of my guildies using IE6 on Win2k, and started chasing the red herring here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917

But on a hunch I disabled my wowhead plugin and IE6 started working. Googling for "operation aborted" and wowhead turned up this thread, and your fix did the trick!

I'm using a much newer version of Joomla, so the edit is in libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php.

Thanks for the sleuthing. Hopefully this change will make it into a future version of Joomla.

Meanwhile, for your amusement, click here:

I upgraded to Joomla 1.5 and my site doesn't have the BASE tag anymore. I'm not sure why. It could be the JoomlaShack Simplicity template I'm using.

Did you re-enable SEF after upgrading? That's what causes the BASE tag to be included.

I too had this problem after I enabled SEF on my site. The solution to include a </base> tag worked!

I was then able to re-enable the SEF and it all look good now.

Obscure problem that only took 2 hours to solve!