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Twitter widget stops page from rendering in IE 8, anybody know why?

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The widget works fine in Firefox but it completely stops the page from being rendered in IE8.

This is the error report it gives me:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0;
Media Center PC 3.0; .NET CLR
1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR
3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Timestamp: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:12:25
UTC

Message:
'document.getElementsByTagName(...).0'
is null or not an object Line: 9 Char:
8365 Code: 0 URI:
http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js

Can anybody help?

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answered 14 Years ago breap · Accepted Answer

The problem is a single bug, which is easily rectified, as reported by (horror!) the hyphen site.

The caveat is, you'll have to download and host the widget.js file yourself to do this (26.7k), but, on the sunny side - you can make fine-grained changes to the widget that the original twitter page doesn't support.

This worked for me in IE8. I had been getting the 'Object doesn't support this property or method' js error.