IE blocks Lightbox - can this be avoided?

daymobrew

I was testing a page that uses Lightbox 2 in IE7 and it didn't work because IE disables the scripts.

I know that they can be enabled by clicking on the yellow alert bar and permitting them, but I fear that many users won't do this.

Are most users likely to get this alert? The security setting in my IE7 is Medium-High for Internet zone.

Is there a way to work around this? Maybe referencing the scripts from a trusted host? Google perhaps? (I know they host a number of Javascript libs).

mewso

Theres something else wrong if IE7 is blocking it. Lightbox and it's variants are in-page pop-ups (i.e. it's simply the toggling of visibility of an element already on the page or dynamically added to the page). They are not traditional pop-ups and as such won't be blocked by a pop-up blocker, certainly not IE7's. My IE7 doesn't block it for example.

aidan_walsh

Are you looking at the page locally, or is it hosted somewhere?

nikimere

i've never had a problem with lightbox on any browser.

daymobrew

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Are you looking at the page locally, or is it hosted somewhere?

This is it - the issue is only when looking at the local file. Phew. Thanks.

aidan_walsh

Yep. IE won't interpret Javascript thats kept on the local machine unless the page has the "Mark of the Web" (dun dun duuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnn)