Error when loading www.Hostican.com?

[Joe User]

I think I've got to be the user with the most errors or something, but hey does anyone else get like a javascript error when they load HostICan - Web Hosting - FREE Domain, PHP, 2,500GB of bandwidth, and more... Sometimes I get a syntax error and an object missing error in the javascript popup windows.

Is it just that the page isn't Internet Explorer 7 friendly? I'm running on Vista Ultimate, but I think I'm getting the same errors on IE 7 with XP as well on my other system. I just checked with Firefox, and everything looks fine.

I wonder if the Hostican webteam might want to check that out because it sort of makes the Hostican webpage look a bit funny to say the least. I haven't had too many other troubles loading other sites. I just thought I'd bring this up just in case someone is looking for professional web hosting services, and then they see whoa... a couple of errors popping up on the home page... and go wondering... hmmm...

First impressions are the longest lasting ones ya know!

[james]

no errors here... have you tried different browsers ? or different computers with another connection ?

[Scott]

I have refused the IE7 trash update on my WinXP. On my IE6, I don't see any issues at all. Just FYI

[Joe User]

Well on my laptop running Vista Ultimate wireless, I was using IE 7 and the errors pop up there. I tried Firefox on the same laptop, and the page was fine with no errors. I should mention that I usually don't encounter too many of these type of popup errors with IE 7 and the laptop. In fact I can't recall another website that I've seen that happen on lately.

On my wired desktop on the same DSL connection, I got the same error with IE 7 and Windows XP professional. I figured it probably is due to IE 7, and yeah I did hear people weren't using it. I just like the convenience of tabbed browsing, but I've never really gone fully over to Firefox, etc. In Microsoft I (misguidedly) trust I suppose. I've tried downgrading one other computer back to IE6, but you know how it goes with Microsoft, once you "upgrade" you can really never go back. The downgrade to IE6 kept crashing and getting all buggered up so I had to revert back to IE 7.

IE 7 has been fairly stable for me otherwise. Maybe I can get a screen cap for you to check out. BTW this seems to happen on all of the tabs except for Contact us, Affiliates, and Order I believe (don't quote me here - I went through it kind of fast).

Here we go:

[Scott]

I hate javascript! :P

Do you have any firewall software or ad blocking software that might be causing it on your end?

[james]

and is it only with IE ? have you tried any other browser ?

[seoguru]

It seems to be a browser trouble... Try Firefox or Opera

[lnxcode]

Humm... not sure I see any issues?

[roger]

I only get this issue with IE, the other browsers are okay.
I assume it's because the top navigation uses Javascript because I get a long pause and then the navigation appears (I've not looked at the source).

I used to use javascript but found that CSS is way faster (and more SEO friendly!)

Here's a CSS navigation example:

CSS...

#menu a, #menu a:visited {
  text-decoration:none; 
  background-color:#FFFFFF; 
  color:#000; 
  display:block; 
  width:215px; 
  height:1.5em; 
  border-bottom:1px solid #FFFFFF;  
  border-right:1px solid #FFFFFF; 
  padding:0.5em;
  }
#menu a:hover {
  border-bottom:1px solid #334C66; 
  text-align:right;
  color: #ff9900;
  }

And the xhtml...

<div id="menu">
  <a href="http://hostican.com">Link 1</a>
  <a href="http://hostican.com">Link 2</a>
  <a href="http://hostican.com">Link 3</a>
</div>

[Joe User]

I'm using PC Tools Firewall plus on my Vista machine and Sygate Firewall on the XP Pro desktop. I also have Google Toobar installed on both IE 7 browsers, but it's been working fine for other websites. Like I mentioned, I did try Firefox, and the Hostican webpage loaded without any errors.

Internet Explorer 7
7.0.6000.16512
cipher strength: 256
Update version 0

The error appears to only come up using Internet Explorer 7. I don't have IE 6 to try it on unfortunately. I'm only getting this error on Hostican.com with IE 7 so that kind of tells me something isn't compatible in the code on that page. Of all the other many, many websites I've visited on both computers, I haven't run across this error. I think I saw it happen once before elsewhere, but that was a long time ago.

Oh well, maybe it's just Roger and me? That sounds like a movie...

Anyways, I thought I'd let you know.