If you do any amount of DHTML scripting you have most likely come across the dreaded "Operation Aborted" error that plagued Internet Explorer 5, 6 and 7. Sure, in some simple situations it's easy to resolve, but with complex controls tracing the problem can be next to impossible. I caught up with Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft to ask him about this behavior and see if anything had been done in Internet Explorer 8. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that as of IE8 Beta 1, IE will now show a standard script error complete with line number instead of wiping out the page and showing the "Operation Aborted Error". As he explained, the when the parser encountered this particular problem it would completely abort parsing and throw up the error. Now you'll get the same behavior as any other script error - a completely rendered page (albeit maybe incorrectly).
I'm quite excited to try out IE8, now if only the Internet connection at the Venetian didn't suck so badly...
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