Does not work on IE8 - Facebox Image and Content Viewer

[Birmingham]

1) Script Title:
:: Facebox image and content viewer (v 1.1)

2) Script URL (on DD):
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/facebox/index.htm

3) Describe problem:
Does not work on my browser: Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18241 on Win XP... No need to give you my site's URL because it doesn't work on the DD URL above either. Same problem on yours and mine - just getting a blank white screen.

[jscheuer1]

A lot of scripts and even just plain HTML styled via css will probably have to be upgraded once IE 8 is officially released. But probably less than appears so now with IE 8 still in beta. MS is at least mildly committed to not breaking installed code.

In the meantime, you probably can take care of the problem at least temporarily by using the meta tag:


<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">

Place it in the head of your page with the other meta tags just before the title tag or just before the title tag if you currently have no other meta tags.

I would suggest you get non-beta browser like FF or Opera, which are both highly compliant without breaking too many previously developed scripts or pages.

[Birmingham]

i have a dozen browsers but i don't have IE7 because it was replaced by IE8 ... i thought it was officially released some time ago. it certainly doesn't advertise clearly that it's just for developers, like how it used to.


anyway, the meta tag sems to do the trick - thanks