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Lightbox v2.02 going goofy in IE6

volfro Member
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Hey everybody,

I tried over at the lightbox forums, thinking this was a problem with lightbox, but seeing as some of you have experience in this area (I'm looking at you, chilifrei, as your existing lightbox thread/themes were of great help to me), I figured it wouldn't hurt to come over here and ask.

Besides, nobody's responded to my thread over there and it's been two days.

Anyway I'm using lightbox and zenphoto in a client's site. Lightbox works perfectly in Firefox (but of course), but behaves eratically in IE6--when it works. Often the script will freeze entirely, after an image has loaded, etc.

What could be conflicting with lightbox that causes it to behave so strangely in IE? Seriously, check it out and see for yourself:

http://www.barryholder.com/gallery/

I notice that in Chilifrei's lightbox 2 theme the behavior is smooth in IE, which makes me think there's something in my code making lightbox bug out...maybe the css?

That's just the testing version of the image gallery--I'm hoping to make it a final version very soon.

Thanks anybody and everybody kind enough to help me out!

Comments

  • Chilifrei64 Member
    it looks to me like maybe it is timing out. Not sure what the load is on your server but even the page is loading really slow which makes me think it is a time out issue. IE must timeout before firefox times out.

    do you have local access to this machine where you can test it.
  • volfro Member
    I don't, it's being hosted by PowWeb and they're undergoing some changes right now as they've been bought out.

    However, the problem I'm having is, in IE, lightbox flickers and resizes over and over, eventually leaving the comment area unusable so that I have to refresh the page. And, when it does work, I'll press the 'close' button and click another photo and the script freezes entirely--only a white box appears and nothing else happens. This has been recreated on both XP and Ubuntu through Wine.

    The timeout error must have only happened when you tried it; it's working quickly for me.
  • Chilifrei64 Member
    it is going much faster now. now i can see something different. All the animated gif's are failing using lightbox in IE. all the jpg's are working fine for me using IE. not sure why IE handles it differently. but my box resizes every time the gif recycles. I dont have a fix for you here.

    when I get home I will load some gif's into mine and see if I get the same output. otherwise I would say post that back on lightbox's forums and see what they have to say about animated gif's and IE
  • volfro Member
    Is THAT what it is?!

    ...you're right. I just uploaded some static images to test it out and you're goll dirned right.

    Crap, I must've been looking too closely to see that. It had crossed my mind, but I didn't actually look for that problem. I'll ask the LB people about it.

    It shouldn't be a problem for this particular application, since he'll only be using static images for his site, but I may've found a bug! Yay for me.

    Thanks for the fresh eyes. I've been staring at this site for so long my eyes are about to roll out of my head, so actually fixing things is a little tougher for me at the moment.
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