[Plugin: Frontpage-Slideshow] The images not loading in IE

Your theme is using mootools that is not compatible with the prototypeJS framework used by the slideshow… the problem comes from there.

Try to use only jquery.

Hi Jeff,
We are having the exact same problem in this blog, so I’ll go ahead and post here (so you don’t have repeated threads/issues). If you need me to repost this somewhere else, just LMK.

1. Preliminary Information:

1. Plugin Unique ID: 6024;
2. Plugin Version: 0.9.7;
3. Theme: Thesis (1.6 Version);
4. WordPress Version: 2.9.2;
5. MySQL Version: 5.0
6. PHP Version: 5.2.4
7. PHP Configuration:
   64MB Memory Limit, Safe Mode Off, Register Globals Off, Display Errors On, Allow URL Fopen On, Magic Quote GPC On;

2. Description of the Issue:
FPSS works perfectly on Firefox 3.6.3, Chrome 4.1, Safari 3.2, and Opera 10.51, but on IE 8 it displays everything (even the loader animation) except for the actual images. I tried to deactivate all my plugins and to play with the css a little (adding and changing the z-index property to #fs-picture, for instance), but that didn’t make a difference.

One of my plugins (superslider-login) uses Mootools, and you said earlier this could be causing the issue. However, and based solely on my not so extensive web experience, if Mootools JS was the guilty element, wouldn’t that prevent images from being displayed in all the other browsers? Also, if that was the pb, wouldn’t the deactivation of the Superslider-login plugin and deletion of all the plugin files (including the Mootools JS file) have fixed the issue?

If you ask me, this smells a lot like an “IE non-compliance to Web and CSS standards” issue to me, but I have no idea were to begin solving this. To be honest, I’m already having some problems with IE and was thinking on including a disclosure somewhere on the site about IE and usability, but one thing is for sure: given the market share that Microsoft and IE still have in users’ browser preferences, I can’t just ignore this issue.

Any help you could give me WILL be very much appreciated. Thank you in advanced!

P.S.: I visited your site and noticed it is written in French, so I wanted to let you know that I speak French perfectly (in case it is easier or more comfortable for you).

I dont see anything special : everything is there.

Try something : try to use more adapted images (1700x1100px is just damn big!) maybe IE got some limitation on huge objects to be manipulated with javascript.

Hello again,

I have some more information for you.

I tried installing FPSS on a 100% fresh install of our theme (Thesis 1.6) here and on an already existing blog, which runs on a customized version of the Apollo theme. You won’t be able to see this last blog because it’s under maintenance, but the result is exactly the same as in the blog running our same theme.

Basically, the pictures are been displayed in those blogs but the buttons are not. Pretty curious behavior if you ask me.

If you have any suggestions let me know.

Have a good weekend!

Hi JF,

I had already tried smaller pictures:

I tried shrinking the pictures but that didn’t work either.

Just to make sure, I recreated them in .png format (with the same resolution: 380 times 231) and they still don’t display in IE.
If you have any other ideas, please let me know.
Thanks.

Haha, thanks. One question: were you able to reproduce the error on your end? I have been trying to reproduce it with the same characteristics on the two blogs where the pictures ARE displaying in IE (but without the buttons), and so far I was not able to.