mozilla/browserid — Issue #803: IE8: Trying to sign into http://carrera.databits.net:9999 gets an error
Author: jbonacci
Created: 2011-12-23 02:43:25+00:00
State: open

When I try to sign in from @fetep 's site, I see this on the bottom of the page:
"Error on page"

Double clicking on that brings up the error information:
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .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 Dec 2011 02:41:37 UTC

Message: Exception thrown and not caught
Line: 37
Char: 2805
Code: 0
URI: https://diresworb.org/include.js

Message: 'k' is null or not an object
Line: 37
Char: 9439
Code: 0
URI: https://diresworb.org/include.js

I am able to sign in from this site with FF 8, Opera, and Chrome on Windows XP, so this is an IE8 issue.