I was just browser testing IE with the newest version of Shashin, and the new overlay style for the captions makes the photos unviewable in IE 8. It’s fine in IE9 and other more recent browsers. If you go to the Shashin settings page and pick the other style for the captions (so they appear under the thumbnails), it should be ok in IE8. If you notice any problems after making that settings change, let me know (and make sure you get the current version of Shashin – 3.4.3).
Great! I changed the setting and my friends and family tell me they can see things great in IE8. Thanks once again, Mike!
I have problems with IE 8. I followed the instructions about the style for the captions but nothing happens. The website address is: http://www.scuolemarchirolo.gov.it, right menu, “Picasa random”. Thanks for the reply. Excuse for my english!! Luisa Bossi
P.S. shashin ver. 3.4.4
I’m sorry Luisa, I don’t know. I can’t re-create your problem on my site (I tried switching to the same size you are using, and using Fanycbox like you are). I follow the same guidelines as Google: to support the 2 most recent versions of each major browser (so IE 9 and IE 10). I’l do fixes for older browsers if it’s quick fix, but I don’t see a quick solution in this case.
You could go back to the previous version of Shashin. It does not provide responsive design (for making it look good on mobile devices), but it works in IE 8. It’s version 3.3.3, which you can download from here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/shashin/developers/
I actually have a better answer for you now. I found I could fairly easily have IE8 simply bypass the javascript code in Shashin that it can’t understand, and with a few more lines of code make things still show up reasonably well (this actually works for IE7 also). I just uploaded a new version – Shashin 3.4.5 – please give it a try.
I have installed Shashin 3.4.5, but in IE8 doesn’t still go.
Picasa random, in home page and some photos gallery (menu “media 2.0) on the left can’t be seen.
Other problems detected are errors found checking site’s pages above as XHTML 1.0 Strict using Markup Validation Service.
Greetings
What the validator is showing as errors are valid HTML 5 data attributes. They are showing as errors because your site is set to XHTML 1.0 Strict, which is a 13 year old standard. You’re asking me to not use any HTML 5 features. I’m sorry but I’m not willing to do that.
I’ve tested it with IE 8 on an HTML 5 site and it works.
