ie8 problem with jQuery when opening a light box

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poo

2009-05-28 03:21:01 UTC

I had Problem same you. I use lightbox and jquery not working on ie8
but I test my website on ie6 ie7 firefox opera safari it can working.

It's great to use new IE8 but while my testing, I faced problems on jQuery
opening lightbox. It was OK with IE7, Safari and Chrome.
My testing site is at www.cdmginc.com a link at the very bottom as
Driving directions to CDMG - Creative Direct Marketing Group which should be
opened as a jQuery lightbox.
Also, some other sites written jQuery faced the same openning lightbox
problems while using IE8. Would you please fix it? Thank you.
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rob^_^

2009-05-28 04:42:20 UTC

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Hi,

Its not a MS product. Check with the vendor for updates to their software.

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/Plugins/category/49

Regards.

Post by poo
I had Problem same you. I use lightbox and jquery not working on ie8
but I test my website on ie6 ie7 firefox opera safari it can working.

Stephan Kristyn

2010-01-13 04:40:02 UTC

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Hi Ichen,

I have no reproduction at IE8 RC1. The Lightbox opens sweetly. I never had
any problems opening any Lightboxes with IE8 weather mootools, jquery or
other JS Frameworks. While Rob was right, that the Site uses OpenSource
Software not written by Microsoft, you may experience a MS product related
problem (IE, Network, etc). In this case however I second Robs opinion, I
think this is a developer related problem. When I code advanced graphical
stuff with Jquery it works smoothly like butter on my IE8 RC1. The side you
reffered to looks not very well written and is rather a mess with lots of
popups and Flash all over the Place.

If you really want to go on with this rather trivial error, i suggest
writing to the website vendors to rewrite their Lightbox Popup.

regards,
stephan
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Jerry

2010-01-25 05:20:01 UTC

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Rob and Stephan

I understand what you are saying about jquery is not a microsoft product.
However it works in IE6, IE7, FF, and Chrome. Just maybe it is IE8 that is
not playing well with others.

Since my computer was upgraded to windows 7 with IE8 I have had more
problems with sites that I use on a daily basis. Not just jquery but
javascript sites also. There are sites that I need to use FF with because I
am tired of entering the info 2-3 times when using IE8, or they don't work at
all. FF and IE7 work every time. Just a side note, this is the second time
I am posting this reply as the first time it failed with IE8 and I don't feel
like writing everything again.

But here is the bottom line for me. Microsoft says they are supporting
jquery and promoting jquery but yet break it with the release of their new
browser. What kind of support is that? I have never seen so many done with
errors in the status bars as I have with IE8. One of the errors was for a
.get and basically IE8 said that microsoft decided to reserve the get word
for themselves. So how many sites did they break doing that?

IE8 gives me all kinds of problems with cookies, will log me out of sites
because the cookies just decide to go where ever. I like the layout of IE as
that is what I am accustomed to. But it is almost time to change defaults to
FF or chrome because of the frustration level of broken sites.

rob^_^

2010-01-27 08:03:32 UTC

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Hi Jerry,

Give us a list of sites you are having problems with and if possible and
scripting error messages you receive so that we can try and reproduce your
issues.

It is no use ranting to us, we are volunteers. If you want to provide
feedback to MS you can submit it at connect.microsoft.com.

<quote>

Post by Jerry
Since my computer was upgraded to windows 7 with IE8 I have had more
problems with sites that I use on a daily basis. Not just jquery but
javascript sites also. There are sites that I need to use FF with because I
am tired of entering the info 2-3 times when using IE8, or they don't work at
all. FF and IE7 work every time. Just a side note, this is the second time
I am posting this reply as the first time it failed with IE8 and I don't feel
like writing everything again.

</quote>

It sounds like that in an effort to "get things to work" you have manually
changed the default security zone settings.

Tools>Internet Options - Security tab - click "Reset all zones to default"

Trusted Sites Zone>Sites
Usually you place your banking, mail provider and other trusted sites here
(viz. facebook)

Ensure you have "Include updated web site lists from Microsoft" in
Compatibility View Settings checked... Those site that are causing you
problems may be on this list. It may not be a jquery issue per se, just that
the site that is using the jquery libraries requires IE7 Compatibility view
in IE8 to work correctly (IE7 compatibility view sends the IE7 UserAgent
string in its request headers, the web site may only be expecting IE up to
v7)

Without some web site addresses and error messages we are just wasting t&M.

Regards.

Post by Jerry
Rob and Stephan
I understand what you are saying about jquery is not a microsoft product.
However it works in IE6, IE7, FF, and Chrome. Just maybe it is IE8 that is
not playing well with others.
Since my computer was upgraded to windows 7 with IE8 I have had more
problems with sites that I use on a daily basis. Not just jquery but
javascript sites also. There are sites that I need to use FF with because I
am tired of entering the info 2-3 times when using IE8, or they don't work at
all. FF and IE7 work every time. Just a side note, this is the second time
I am posting this reply as the first time it failed with IE8 and I don't feel
like writing everything again.
But here is the bottom line for me. Microsoft says they are supporting
jquery and promoting jquery but yet break it with the release of their new
browser. What kind of support is that? I have never seen so many done with
errors in the status bars as I have with IE8. One of the errors was for a
.get and basically IE8 said that microsoft decided to reserve the get word
for themselves. So how many sites did they break doing that?
IE8 gives me all kinds of problems with cookies, will log me out of sites
because the cookies just decide to go where ever. I like the layout of IE as
that is what I am accustomed to. But it is almost time to change defaults to
FF or chrome because of the frustration level of broken sites.