“Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site…Operation aborted”

There was another problem that just appeared today where IE was popping an error saying “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site…Operation aborted”. Web search indicated people saw a similar problem when using the Google Maps API, evidently because IE doesn’t like scripted changes to a table DOM before the rendering finishes:

http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2005/08/22/2121.aspx

http://www.ryangrant.net/archives/internet-explorer-cannot-open-the-internet-site-operation-aborted-google-map-api

The suggested change was to wrap the JS inside a setTimeout with wait of 1ms. That worked for me.

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