IE Internet Explorer Error & Youtube Compatibility Issue Fixed – “Operation Aborted” WordPress Drupal

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Eastwood

Problem

I used to use the Binary Blue theme with WordPress, and noticed that IE would output “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site” whenever I embed a Youtube video onto my blog.

I’ve tried numerous plugins and all of them have resulted identically when opened with IE…

Solution

You need to take the Youtube code and remove EVERYTHING except the very last set of embed tags:

Instead of…

<object width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/qPE2fHs5-_I”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/qPE2fHs5-_I” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed></object>

You have…

<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/qPE2fHs5-_I” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Problem solved Use <div></div> tags to centre and you’re good to go.

69 thoughts on “IE Internet Explorer Error & Youtube Compatibility Issue Fixed – “Operation Aborted” WordPress Drupal”

Steve Wordpressguy on April 20, 2007 at 8:04 am said:

This is one of the biggest frustrations about WP and YouTube (in fact most embedding media). You do get plugins, but you need multiple plugins to handle the various items, and none of them really nail the problem. Human intervention is still probably the best option, especially with service like you got here! I wish people answered my emails as quickly

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Robert Irizarry on April 21, 2007 at 6:51 pm said:

You’re a life saver! I’ve been having compatibility issues with Youtube videos in general since moving to WordPress a couple of weeks ago. I couldn’t get them to preview in any browser. I just stripped the code as indicated in your article and VOILA…they work! Thanks so much!

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Kariknapp on May 31, 2007 at 3:17 pm said:

Thank you! This rude error message was driving me mad! I am so happy that the solution was so simple!

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Mali on July 5, 2007 at 2:09 pm said:

Thank you so much, this was very helpful.

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Ben on August 29, 2007 at 11:27 am said:

Thanks! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure this one out. Someday, M$ will make things that work right.

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Erez on September 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm said:

Thanks a million!!! I love you!

I spent hours trying to solve this irritating problem in Drupal embedded Video CCK field for Youtube. Upon loosing hope I tried to google it for the 100 time and stumbled upon this post this time.

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Aantn on September 12, 2007 at 1:11 am said:

Thanks a lot. This saved me a lot of trouble.

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softwaricho on March 12, 2008 at 7:24 pm said:

We all love you
Gracias panita, me salvaste la molestia. Eres el mejor
“Thanks panita, you saved me the inconvenience. You are the best”

Thanx form Venezuela

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pamela on April 14, 2008 at 9:34 pm said:

Thank you very much. I worked for me too. I didn’t why my web site worked fine with everything but Explorer and then I noticed the only pages it didn’t work with were the youtube embeds. I think Youtube should change the embed code so this can be avoided. I didn’t want to have to install programs to make it work.

You saved me so much time! thanks! this is an example of the when the internet works – people helping each other.
pamela

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Scalp on April 16, 2008 at 4:40 am said:

Ahh..that’s the trick that will solve it! Thank you for the heads up and solution as I would have spent countless time on my WP blog trying to figure it out.

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Catherine on June 12, 2008 at 5:58 pm said:

thank you so much.

Peace

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Technology Transfer opportunties on July 16, 2008 at 4:09 am said:

I use Firefox as my browser, and I try to make sure all of my code at least functions in Firefox. However, you absolutely cannot ignore IE. EVERYONE running Windows at least has IE on their PC, and most of them use it exclusively. But I simply hate it! Firefox is way better!

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Dubai Web Design, Development on August 12, 2008 at 10:05 pm said:

hay its magic. It looks like you have solve a million dollar question.I was nearly stuck by that error and consult with lot of developer but non of them are helpful. You post works like injection to us.

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Davion on October 1, 2008 at 5:49 pm said:

I still can’t get youtube videos to work on my yahoo 360. Thanks to you, the videos show up and actually play in the compose box, but when I preview them, tey won’t show up at all. I used to post videos like this without any complications at all, but that was in September 08. Now it just won’t work.

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Eastwood on October 2, 2008 at 9:28 pm said:

Davion,

Does it display any error messages? Which browser are you using?

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Marbie on October 5, 2008 at 2:58 pm said:

I used to embed YouTube videos on my Yahoo 360 blog successfully, too. Then they just stopped working. I use IE7. Any ideas?

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Marbie on October 5, 2008 at 3:00 pm said:

Forgot to answer part of your question to Davion. I get no error message. In the compose box, there is a black square where the video should be. It has no play button in the middle. In “preview” or “Posted” there is nothing but blank space.

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Eastwood on October 5, 2008 at 7:15 pm said:

Marbie & Davion, here’s what I dug up:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080925044638AAcKF9t

Perhaps it’s a yahoo glitch of some sort? If anyone else comes up with solutions paste them here.

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Marbie on October 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm said:

Thank you for your efforts, Eastwood. When I visited the link, it said that Yahoo Answers was taking a coffee break. Who knew? haha I will keep checking back until they are available.

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Marbie on October 13, 2008 at 3:05 pm said:

Here’s what I found at http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Embedding_Flash.

“There seems to be a lot of confusion about the code needed to properly embed Flash objects within a website: it’s the most frequently asked question at this site’s forum. The rise of social networking sites like Myspace (who filter lots of codes) and the “Eolas patent enforcement” have thrown quite some confusion into the mix. In this tutorial, I’ll shortly align the best options to embed Flash.”

Visit this site for a detailed discussion on the solutions available. Apparently, there was a legal matter between Microsoft and Adobe, I guess, called the Eolas Patent Enforcement, which prevents IE from embedding Flash videos, as it used to do.

Work arounds have been devised by others.

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Eastwood on October 13, 2008 at 3:24 pm said:

Thanks for the link. Hopefully it’ll be of some help to others.

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Masa Oka on October 16, 2008 at 11:57 pm said:

I had a problem with IE not showing the Youtube video I embed into my website.

Your post solved it. Thank you very much!!

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Eastwood on October 17, 2008 at 12:57 am said:

You’re very welcome, Masa!

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angel chen on November 2, 2008 at 12:25 am said:

Same thing with me, I was wondering what was causing the problem until now. It was actually those video’s fault.

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Steve on November 3, 2008 at 1:32 pm said:

Thanks! You’re a lifesaver. That was driving me crazy.

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Eastwood on November 3, 2008 at 1:36 pm said:

Not a problem at all!

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Hamselv on November 7, 2008 at 11:04 am said:

Thanks m8 – very helpful!

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Dennis on November 10, 2008 at 7:55 pm said:

Thanks for that! I was just about ready to give up!

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Fox on November 25, 2008 at 4:04 pm said:

Thanks a ton for the simple fix. Can’t believe I missed it earlier ;( saved me thinking i was gonna have to dig deep into the CMS files looking for screwy scripts.

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Gábi on December 15, 2008 at 11:28 am said:

Wow, you really really saved my life!
Thanks!

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shawn on December 24, 2008 at 7:15 pm said:

Well does I tried for yahoo 360 blog, yet it STILL appears white after posting? Is it Yahoo problem, or am I still doing something wrong?

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Mat/Tia on January 14, 2009 at 1:21 am said:

Thank you a lot for this post! It helped me with a problem of mine!

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- Eastwood on January 14, 2009 at 11:15 am said:
  
  Anytime!
  
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Frank on January 18, 2009 at 8:47 am said:

Thanks for a great post. I spent days trying to find a solution for this issue. Yours worked the first time. But I didn’t use it for Youtube or other videos, my issue was with Amazon Associates Deals Widget. I cut out the appropriate code from Amazon and used your structure, it works!

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Ivens on February 17, 2009 at 11:03 am said:

Thanks you. Now it really works!!!

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scamp on February 18, 2009 at 7:06 am said:

It seems this is not right.
I think we should use this to fix the problem:

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scamp on February 18, 2009 at 7:07 am said:

object type= application/x-shockwave-flash style= width:425px; height:350px; data= linkyoutube param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U” / /object

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- Eastwood on February 18, 2009 at 4:41 pm said:
  
  Is this HTML code you’re referring to?
  
  Something like an object tag?
  
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Walter on March 7, 2009 at 1:16 am said:

Thank you so much!
Where is the “Buy me a beer” button?

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- Eastwood on March 7, 2009 at 3:36 pm said:
  
  You’re most welcome!
  
  We’ll save it for another day
  
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Fredrik Olastuen on March 26, 2009 at 9:38 am said:

Thank you so much! I was almost going insane here, trying to find out what caused the errors in IE. Now it’s fixed

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bgm on March 30, 2009 at 11:54 pm said:

Everybody else is happy, except by me it won’t work. What’s wrong with this code (without completed brackets):

embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/JlOFBqDVfhE&hl=de&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″>

I also tried with object-tag and both together but my IE6 just won’t show the video. Firefox has no problems with them.
Thanx for help!

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- Eastwood on March 31, 2009 at 5:52 pm said:
  
  Hmm… not sure what the problem is. Is it still giving you the “operation aborted” error?
  
  Try removing the “allowscriptaccess” and “allowfullscreen” sections. Good luck!
  
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bgm on April 1, 2009 at 12:02 am said:

Sorry, that didn’t help.
I don’t get any error messages, the browser just doesn’t show anything except white box as a “placeholder”. You can check the code in a dummy page:
http://www.transhumanismus.net/index2.php

thnx!

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- Eastwood on April 2, 2009 at 6:34 pm said:
  
  From Firefox, I see 3 embedded videos on your page. The first and second are contained in “youtube [begin] / [end]” html comments. Both of them are using the “object” tag — this is not recommended. Try viewing your source and editing out the excess code.
  
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  - bgm on April 21, 2009 at 12:24 am said:
    
    Sorry for late answer, I was on a holiday!
    I had the same video three times with different ways on the page to test them, and neither of them worked. I deleted the “objects”, however even the embed-version doesn’t show it in IE. Am I really so stupid or what’s wrong with the code?
    
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bipul on April 10, 2009 at 7:08 pm said:

Thanks. This saved my day.

No matter whether w3c already depricated the tag and promotes tag instead, WP, Youtube and IE make a wonderful combination.
Its IE, it doesn’t have to comply with the web standards .. haha

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- bipul on April 10, 2009 at 7:10 pm said:
  
  and my [embed] and [object] tags got stolen too! Put them back in place to read my comment. Funny!
  
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  - Eastwood on April 10, 2009 at 11:43 pm said:
    
    Haha… that’s IE alright!
    
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hasnaeen on June 30, 2009 at 11:18 pm said:

Thanks man! … the solution works!!

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tiny on September 8, 2009 at 12:10 am said:

Thanks i really like this trick. i busy with this task almost 2 day. Now got your solution.

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bethinkr on January 10, 2010 at 8:01 pm said:

Thank you, thank you. I really love this solution and I wish that IE would get with it.

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csdesigns on April 9, 2010 at 4:37 pm said:

THANKS! I have been fighting this and am so glad to have it working!

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darren on June 5, 2010 at 3:27 am said:

this is bloody brilliant! Dreamweaver also generates lot of useless script code as an additional string to your YouTube embedded code. Do away with all the extra rubbish and it works fine in IE

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errr... on August 13, 2010 at 3:46 pm said:

ok, google owns youtube and the embed code provided by youtube works in chrome but not IE. hmmm….I wonder why? lol

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Inaam Gujjar on October 29, 2010 at 1:03 am said:

my website uses embed code of youtube I simply use embed tag for that but it runs multiple copies at the same time , as one stopped but the other hidden give the videos voice.
Please help to fix that Problem.

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David Lundquist on December 21, 2010 at 11:56 am said:

YouTube does not include the flash ClassID for the active X component. You need this:

classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″

Example
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" ….

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closercreative on February 27, 2011 at 7:02 am said:

Thank you so much for this tip – I’ve been pulling my hair out for the last hour trying to fix this!!

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Creative on June 14, 2011 at 4:19 pm said:

Thank you very much for this solution, its so simple!

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Andi on September 8, 2011 at 10:19 pm said:

Thank you so much, dude! So simple, yet… so hard… )

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