OpenCart doesn't work at Internet Explorer 8

[rafaelbxavier]

Hello everybody!

I found a bug with Internet Explorer version 8 (maybe has the same problem at version 6 and 7 as well). The problem appear when you click "Add to Cart". The product never goes to the Shopping Cart and you can not buy the products.

Is a JavaScript error and happens only at Internet Explorer 6 to 8 but I don't know how to fix that yet.

First I thought the problem was in my website template, but I tried to buy something using Internet Explorer 8 with the last demonstration from OpenCart oficial website: http://demo.opencart.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=43 and I received the same error, when you click at "Add to cart" nothing happens.

I notice in the forums many others are having the same problem but no solution until now. Anybody knows how to fix that?

Cheers,
Rafael

[ghost]

It works for me. Make sure you don't have something else interfering. You can try running it with extensions turned off following the directions at http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/04/28/how-to-run-ie8-without-add-ons/ and see if that helps.

[ADDCreative]

Could be the IE bug discussed at http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=161&t=61800 where there is a workaround. A better way to fix would maybe to call the Colorbox plugin from $(document).ready in the template files. Something I have been meaning to do a pull request for but not had time.

Although OpenCart is 100% valid in the way it calls Colorbox, it does trigger a bug in unpatched versions of IE (links below). I would guess that quite a few customers haven't got all the patches installed, so a workaround probably does need adding to OpenCart.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917/en-gb
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to-operation-aborted.aspx

This also means that your OS might not have all the patches install. I would recommend you run windows update.

[opencart]

anyopne got a fix for this. i don;t want to install IE7 & 8 to test this.

[ADDCreative]

I think this covers it #248. Seems to work in all versions of IE I can test. Posted a fix in forum bug thread (http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?p=343061#p343061) for the header that effectively did the same thing and a few users posted it fixed it for them.

[opencart]

ok thx.