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Hi guys,

Can anyone help me figure out a bug in ie9 i'm having?

I'm on a mac and using parallels to run ie9 and its a pain in the neck as I can't get firebug lite working to help debug with this.

Anyway on the right hand side beside the paris hilton video theres a 360 tour that works fine in chrome, firefox etc but not i.e. 9 and i've installed some developer bar and its telling me theres a bug in the jquery file but i've changed to a different CDN and even redownloaded the jquery file to try locally and still no joy.

Any help/pointers at all thanks!!

Kevin

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Good follow-up from — a few quick, practical notes so the same class of bug is easier to spot next time and so readers years later can apply the checks that matter.

  • Use IE9's built‑in Developer Tools (press F12). Look at the Console for the actual JS error and the Network/Profiler to confirm the jQuery file returned a 200 and the expected content-type. Use the DOM Explorer to verify the script element actually exists in the parsed DOM (source HTML can differ from what the browser parsed).
  • Check Browser Mode and Document Mode in the F12 tools. If IE is running the page in an older mode (IE7/quirks) a modern script or DOM API can fail even though other browsers are fine.
  • Confirm load order: dependencies like jQuery must load before any code that uses them. A missing or blocked resource will surface as a reference error in the console.
  • Validate surrounding HTML. Unclosed tags or stray characters near script tags can break parsing so the file is not executed as expected. If in doubt, isolate the include on a minimal test page.

When developing on a Mac with Parallels, prefer IE's F12 tools over third‑party mini-debuggers for IE-specific problems; use cloud cross‑browser services (or a quick Windows VM snapshot) for fast verification if F12 isn’t available.

Authoritative references:

Minimal include example for clarity:

<script src="path/to/jquery.min.js"></script>
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For anyone wondering what the problem was it's the Comment Tags <!-- around the script - remove them, they are obsolete now.

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Where did you learn that?!

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