Anything Slider not sliding in Internet Explorer 8

[MichaelvanLaar]

Internet Explorer is driving me crazy one more time :-(

I includer a nice custom styled Anything Slider on a clients new (still under development) website: http://www.frankfurt-spart-strom.de/wordpress/privathaushalte/

Everything works fine in normal browsers. To my surprise It also works as expected in IE9 and in IE7. But it doesn’t do anything in IE8. Neither does the autostart option work, nor do the navigation links for the next/previous slides work.

Any ideas?

[TheDoc]

Here is the error if anyone is wondering. Unfortunately, I’m pretty useless when it comes to these things. @Mottie is our resident AnythingSlider expert (and he also handles the GitHub repository), so I’m sure he’ll know what’s going on!

Webpage error details



User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C)

Timestamp: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:59:53 UTC





Message: 'nodeType' is null or not an object

Line: 16

Char: 3335

Code: 0

URI: http://www.frankfurt-spart-strom.de/wordpress/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.6.1





Message: 'f.$lastPage.0' is null or not an object

Line: 8

Char: 2436

Code: 0

URI: http://www.frankfurt-spart-strom.de/wordpress/wp-content/themes/fss/js/libs/jquery.anythingslider.video.min.js

@Mottie – I don’t mean to dump stuff off on you, but you are just too knowledgeable with the slider!

[Mottie]

@MichaelvanLaar I can’t get the link to your site to work.

@TheDoc No worries, I answer questions on StackOverflow too ;)

[MichaelvanLaar]

@Mottie Strange. The site is not protected in any way and works from every computer I tried it so far.

[Mottie]

Maybe I’m going crazy? I’ve tried every browser.

[MichaelvanLaar]

@Mottie This is more than strange, since it seems to be a DNS problem.

I have to create a copy of the site anyway and place it on a dev server. Perhaps that works better.

[MichaelvanLaar]

@Mottie OK, I copied the whole website to our dev-server. Yout should be able to access the page with the slider here: http://fss.dev.talkabout.de/privathaushalte/

[Mottie]

Ahhh, I was getting an error from jQuery. I have a feeling it’s related to this jQuery bug that happens only in IE8 when there is an object element in the first or last slide (jQuery v1.6.1 can’t clone them). This is a known problem in older versions of jQuery.

So try updating to the latest version, which is v1.6.4, and the slider should start working.

[MichaelvanLaar]

Thanks a lot! In other CMS I always use the latest jQuery version. I should get into the habit of replacing this in WordPress, too, since the jQuery version shipped with WordPress is usually not up to date.

[MichaelvanLaar]

BTW, of course now it works :-)

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