Question

I’m having a hard time getting my installed extension to work in IE 8. When i run it through a bookmarklet everything loads correctly and the extension works as intended. When installing the extension it won’t run automatically on the pages it should.

Currently it’ll only work on http://www.bestbuy.com. Also the click-through won’t work, but you should be able to tell if the extension loads on those pages.

Here is the bookmarklet code:

javascript:(function(){var d=document;var s=d.createElement('script');s.text="KOBJ_config={'a1229x4:kynetx_app_version':'dev','rids':['a1229x4']};";d.body.appendChild(s);var l=d.createElement('script');l.src='http://init.kobj.net/js/shared/kobj-static.js';d.body.appendChild(l);})()

Here are links for the installers:
IE – http://app-files.s3.amazonaws.com/installers/shopscotch-qa_Setup.exe
Firefox – change to .xpi instead of .exe
Chrome – change to .crx instead of .exe

Here is the KRL code:
http://app-files.s3.amazonaws.com/installers/shopscotchKRL.js

Answer 1

Thank you for sharing your source code. Looks like you are missing semicolons in various places in your emitted JavaScript that I’m guessing IE pukes on. I would fix that and then try again. Found on lines 107 and 111.

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update 02/18/2011

Try changing your dispatch domains so that you are not including the www part of the domain. In testing I found that the IE extension doesn’t like it. I have filed a bug report and hope that fixes your problem. (you don’t really need the www anyway)

Previous dispatch block of

dispatch {
  domain "shopscotch.qat"
  domain "www.bestbuy.com"
  domain "www.bebe.com"
}

would become

dispatch {
  domain "shopscotch.qat"
  domain "bestbuy.com"
  domain "bebe.com"
}

After I changed the dispatch block to not have the www I was able to get it to run on bestbuy.com