[4150][Duplicate] Js error RC2: News Fader breaks on IE and Webkit

[gm112]

More or less, it happens on IE(all versions I've tested so far). With Chrome, latest version, I would just have to refresh the page and everything would be fine.

[Arantor]

News fader being broken on Chrome is well known and has been for some time. Though if it's breaking in IE that suggests some other code is in place that breaks, e.g. a mod.

[karlbenson]

We thought we had fixed this.

[Arantor]

I haven't retested on Chrome, but was it fixed for RC2? I thought Fader was still broken.

[gm112]

I'll post two comparison screenshots.

Firefox 3.5.6 -- http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5159/10714772.png

Internet Explorer 8 - http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3950/57999459.png

^^ Theme only changes CSS.

[karlbenson]

Looks like this is related to a js error.
http://dev.simplemachines.org/mantis/view.php?id=4150

[gm112]

Looks like this is related to a js error.
http://dev.simplemachines.org/mantis/view.php?id=4150

How is this a duplicate when I posted this before that bug got submitted up onto the bug tracker? O_o..

[karlbenson]

No offence is intended.
Its our fault for not having tracked your report sooner.

[gm112]

No offence is intended.
Its our fault for not having tracked your report sooner.

Wasn't offended .
I was just curious if it was an honest error ^^.

[Scratching my Head]

While searching for an answer to this, I came up with something that solved it.

IE doesn't play nice with three letter color codes, i.e., #fff

BUT


IE does like the full six letter color codes, e.g. #ffffff


When I went through and changed the color codes in my custom theme from
three letter color codes to six letter color codes, IE played nice and this very same problem went away.


Hope that helps. It took me hours to figure out.