JS error on News Fader in IE (SMF2.0RC5)

[sdkid]

Using Internet Explorer, I am getting the following error:

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Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:53:41 UTC

Message: '1' is null or not an object
Line: 54
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://greatplainsvoices.com/Themes/default/scripts/fader.js



The news fader section shows ALL of the news items--it does not fade between each item.  This only happens with IE.  Chrome and FF work fine.  JS was updated to v6, build 24. 

thoughts on this?  Anyone else seeing this?

[Arantor]

Edit your theme's CSS.

It even notes the problem in there!

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#smfFadeScroller
{
    text-align: center;
    padding: 0 2em;
    overflow: auto;
    margin: 1em 0;
    color: #fff; /* shouldn't be shorthand style due to a JS bug in IE! */
}


Convert it into:

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#smfFadeScroller
{
    text-align: center;
    padding: 0 2em;
    overflow: auto;
    margin: 1em 0;
    color: #ffffff; /* shouldn't be shorthand style due to a JS bug in IE! */
    background-color: black;
}


[sdkid]

excellent!  thanks-- I thought "shorthand" meant using color names like red, gold, black, etc...  You totally nailed it.

[Arantor]

No, shorthand refers to the 3 character triplet, which breaks on IE when the fader tries to look up the colour and fails.