Unstable with IE 7 & 8: HTML Parsing Error: KB927917

Hi:

I have bought and install all the JFB connect, invite and login components and have installed it in my test production site. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="new159.puxzycat.com">new159.puxzycat.com.

What I find is that IE will hang if I load the page sometimes. The problem is most apparent when I try to load the JFBConnect page which is placed inside an article with {loadposition 'position'}. Sometimes it loads, sometimes it doesn't and hitting refresh will solve the problem. And the worst thing is that sometimes it hangs and the IE will say it can't find the webpage.

With firefox, it is much more stable. I have tested it with both IE8 and IE7, both seems to be doing the same thing.

As it is quite a random event, it's hard for me to tell you exactly what I did to cause the problem. What I am doing is to test the solution is to login, logout, login, logout, load the invite page, etc. One out of say every 10 page loads, the problem surfaces.

I am totally confused as this instability is not acceptable to put on the production site. However, implementing facebook connect very high priority for us.

Whenever this happens, I get an error as described below:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Timestamp: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:22:16 UTC


Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)
Line: 0
Char: 0
Code: 0
URI: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="new159.puxzycat.com/index.php?option=com...59&Itemid=95&lang=en">new159.puxzycat.com/index.php?op ... 95&lang=en


Message: 'FB' is undefined
Line: 78
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="new159.puxzycat.com/index.php?option=com...59&Itemid=95&lang=en">new159.puxzycat.com/index.php?op ... 95&lang=en



If you need an admin username and password, I can create one for you and PM you.

Thanks.

Albert

Thanks for your reply...

Microsoft IE is undoubtedly the worst browser ever. I had so many problems with it and everytime I do something, I have to check against it. So unfortunate that it is the most popular due to their marketing strategies. I guess that's life.

I had been trying to solve these issues on my own and I found a forum where it said that the developer tool can interfere and cause these problems. So I un-installed IE8 with developer tools and installed IE7 instead.

That seemed to solve the problem!

In fact, after some testing, it wasn't your Facebook connect and login modules that are causing the problem, my template was causing a lot of problems as well. But it wasn't as often.

Thanks for your advice on changing the template to default joomla templates. That was a really good idea to isolate problems. Pointers like these to newbies like me really help and I appreciate your help.

Best regards,

Albert