Tag: insecure

IE8: Navigation to the webpage was cancelled

With the advent of IE 8, I started getting calls about a new error when accessing our learning management system.

“Navigation to the webpage was cancelled.”

This error can be caused by many things, but in this case, I believe it has to do with the fact that the LMS has both secure and insecure assets in the frameset. Unfortunately, many times messages will come up asking people whether they want to view both types, and they will click “no” without knowing that the page requires them to function.

Since I can’t ever really know what is going on with a user’s home computer’s security setup, I simply tell them to reset their Internet Explorer to its default settings.

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