Is anybody else seeing a lot of script or page editors in HTML pages with Internet Explorer? I see tons of sites that fail with script errors these days on load and result in a script error on Line 2 or Line 1 with the debug box popping up.

 

For example:

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/default.aspx

 

and

 

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.systemexception.aspx

 

 

If I look at the debugger it always highlights the line after the doctype:

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >

<html>

 

So it almost looks like it’s choking on the doc type. However when I look at other pages – like the Microsoft home page for example, it has the same doctype and no issues. So that’s not it.

 

The pages invariably contain script code and it’s likely the script code is bonking somewhere, but it’s odd that the debugger isn’t finding a closer match to the actual error. As it is I have no clue what’s wrong.

 

And although these two examples are on the Microsoft site, I see this quite frequently on other major sites as well. It’s so common I’m almost used to just clicking past the dialog.

 

Anybody else seeing this?

 

This has been happening for some time but until Vista RTM install I kinda wrote off as a beta bug. At this point though it looks like this is here to stay. Of course right as I’m writing this I can’t find links that break except the one above.

 

Incidentally I still have major issues with IE not connecting to various financial sites that do redirects after login. The login/redirects simply fail and go nowhere and I have to manually fire up FireFox.

 

Yeah, I know I should be using FF but I have several applications that I use constantly that require rich editing and RTF cut and paste which just doesn’t work quite right with FireFox, so whenever I try to use FF for any extended period of time I find myself eventually falling back to IE. I suppose I should install the FireFox IE add in <s>…

 

I’m just curious if anybody else is seeing this or has any idea what might be causing these errors especially the annoying script errors.