Anybody else having problems with some political sites in IE7?

[WeDidIt]

I keep having blogs blow up when loading in IE7, but then work fine in Mozilla.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

Anybody else?

[goclark]

1. can't open those sites....

[WeDidIt]

2. I can't with IE7, but they work fine with Mozilla.

[goclark]

3. Also when I am posting in a thread the yellow folders at the beginning

of theposts are on top of the letters.

Does anyone understand why that is happening to me at DU?

[Junkdrawer]

4. Same with IE6...

I'm in the middle of adaware/virus scans...

[NMDemDist2]

5. damn, I can't open em either.... n/t

[rfranklin]

6. I was getting the same with Smiorkingchimp.com...

Freeper cyber attack?

[WeDidIt]

8. Nope, Michelle Malkin does the same thing

Looks to be Wordpress and Blogspot sites.

[Inspired]

7. I'm having problems with many sites tonight. Hmmmm......

Glad to hear it's not just me.

[kpete]

9. very very

weird day on the "tubes", kp

[Snarkoleptic]

10. I keep getting an error dialogue box saying...

"Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site www.xxxxxxx.com operation aborted"
Are the neocons testing their free speech suppressor mechanism in advance of the stolen election?
I'm not sayin'...I'm just sayin'.

[Snarkoleptic]

16. Just downloaded Firefox3.0 and it works like a charm.

[goclark]

19. My mind was going in that direction as well

Even the letter that I type for this thread overlap for some reason.

[lonestarnot]

23. Same thing over at raw story

[ingac70]

11. Same here. n/t

[EV_Ares]

12. I have IE-7 & same problem as you, wouldn't open, eom.

[Toucano]

13. Okay in Firefox. Okay in Opera.

Don't have IE, so can't help there.

You welcome! :)

[Junkdrawer]

14. I just used firefox to look at the source of both sites and this Javascript is there...

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
var axel = Math.random() + "";
var ord = axel * 1000000000000000000;
//-->
</script>

Innocuous or not? :shrug:

[Junkdrawer]

15. A Google reveals this may be standard code for ad rotators...n/t

[EV_Ares]

17. You are right, opens fast with Mozilla, eom.

[Nite Owl]

18. I can't either

When did this start?

[orleans]

20. i tried crooksandliars. can't open. it did the same thing

that i get whenever i want to go on an ap webpage. but i never had the problem with crooks&liars before.

[donco6]

21. political blogspot won't open either. eom

[lonestarnot]

22. Can't get raw to come up either.

:shrug:

[Kingofalldems]

24. I got the same thing with Rawstory and a sports site

I go to. What is this?

[lonestarnot]

25. WTF is the problem do you suppose?

[Junkdrawer]

26. Perhaps a bad banner ad?

:shrug:

[cliffordu]

27. Well, IE7 is crap, and that might be your real problem....

[Liberal In Texas]

28. Nope. Opened your link in IE7, not a problem.

But stay with Firefox unless it just won't open there.

[donco6]

29. Free Republic comes up fine.

Figures.

It does sound like a bad banner ad.

[jtrockville]

30. Yep. Rawstory.com and Donklephant.com too...

[Junkdrawer]

31. Sitemeter seems to be the problem

Good morning, kids!

I think the problem is sitemeter, which I've removed from my own site until they fix whatever they did. In the meantime, you'll have to view sites that are using it with some browser other than IE. If you have sitemeter on your site, you might want to remove it until they fix whatever they did yesterday.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/

[NMDemDist2]

32. here's the fix from another DUer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3718939&mesg_id=3719085

[Phred42]

33. Using FIREFOX and Du is being a pain

[Phred42]

34. This is how it wil happen - just before the next Coup

we won't be able to get to get to any sites where we can get good info.

DU has been a pain, ALternet on an off

No trouble getting sites like FINANCIAL TIMES however

[Jazzgirl]

38. I'm using Firefox and I've had a little trouble on DU this morning.

I switched to the IE engine and it came up. I switched back to FF and it's working now but it is being an intermittent pain.

[Mojorabbit]

35. The same thing is

happening on some other non political boards I hang out at. Mostly people with IE. Was there a new patch sent out lately? I have firefox and so far no problems.

[Junkdrawer]

36. Some problems are explained by SiteMeter (see upthread)...

Others remain a mystery. Ability to reach DU was switching this morning between my laptop and desktop (weird). Seems fine now.

[MiniMe]

37. Crooks & Liars is fixed for the time being

I think they removed sitemeter from their site.

[lonestarnot]

41. Still can't get to raw story this a.m.

[conspirator]

39. Call me a tinfoil. But it sounds like a drill for an internet censorship/filtering technology

like the one china uses.

[lonestarnot]

40. I don't think you really need the tinfoil there. It is happening.

[DavidDvorkin]

42. It's caused by Sitemeter, according to Atrios (Eschaton)

He says that Sitemeter made a change recently that caused this, and he's removed it from his site until they fix the problem.

[lonestarnot]

43. Screw it. I downloaded firefox browser and now no problems.

So who spies on me now? :rofl:

[lonestarnot]

44. Is it on all the damn sites where I visit?

I don't understand all this stuff. I just know it's frustrating. :crazy:

[katandmoon]

45. Definitely Sitemeter. I'm webmaster of several sites having the exact same problem with it and

None of my sites is political at all. But they were all inaccessible last night through I.E. (but not Firefox) until I removed the counters from them.