Thread: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

Getting issues with IE8 & the 2.9 demo.

Clicking on an image the rotating gif is showing but after waiting it times out and the IE8 debugger shows:

Message: Not implemented

Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://wpclassipress.com/demo/ilife-09/

browser details:
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Mon, 25 May 2009 12:36:12 UTC

I'm also curious why you chose fancybox instead of the excellent jquery lightbox implementation - http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/

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Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

forgot to mention it's IE8 in XP.

Works fine in FF3 on XP & IE7 on Vista.

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Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

works ok when put in compatability mode

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Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

ClassiPress hasn't been certified in IE8 yet. It's still quite new and a very small % of people are using it at this time.

Fancybox is smooth and different than lightbox (which every site seems to use). I like them both but decided to go with Fancybox.

Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

Last time I had issues implementing lightbox (& clones of) it was the rel attribute. Once I'd changed the call to a class="xxx" instead it played nicely.

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Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

Will this be fixed in 2.9.2? To say its unsupported because it's the newest version doesn't really sound good. Almost as bad as saying we'll write it for IE6 just because some people are still using it.

I've seen some sites using fancybox working in IE8 so it is compatable e.g http://prothemedesign.com/themes/mimbo-pro/

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Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

I didn't say it's not supported....I just said we haven't certified it on IE8. It was just released in March so it's still very new.

Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

There seems to be 2 fancybox jquery versions: 1 works with ie8 one doesn't and gives the debug error. You're probably using the non-working version.

http://www.jdmweb.com/tools.php?toolid=6 -> working

http://fancy.klade.lv/ -> not working

Should be just a case of implementing the correct one. Looks like the same core but different implementation.

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Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

This hasn't been resolved in 2.9.2.

A roadmap to when this will be resolved would be appreciated. Until then i would recommend that the theme < head > contains the ie7 emulate header:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7">

This will force ie8 to emulate ie7 quirks mode and act as if the browser is ie7.

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Re: IE8, 2.9demo, fancybox

could you please go a bit more thoroughly into that and explain to us WHICHfolder, WHATfile and WHERE in the file? some of us are n00bs ..