ALO EasyMail fail/conflict in IE

• Taran

  said

  Hi
  I have done a fresh install of WP and added only the plugin “ALO EasyMail Newsletter widget” at http://sandbox.dorset-sorted.co.uk/?p=6
  It fails in IE9 but works fine in other browsers.
  (maybe an Ajax thing?)

  When I try to sign up using IE9 I do not get the notification “Your subscription was successfully activated. You will receive the next newsletter. Thank you.” and the submitted form does not add a subscriber. I am on WP version 3.4.2 and the Alo Version 2.4.11 and Traject 1.2.3

  Otherwise very happy with this theme used at http://www.thefishrestaurant-westbay.co.uk/

• Taran

  said

  BTW works fine in IE with other themes (http://www.bridportgigclub.org/contact/ for instance)

• jeffw

  said

  Hi, Taran.

  I can’t think of any reason why this would fail just in IE9. Are you quite sure that you are not using IE in its infamous “compatibility” mode?

  You might try updating the version of jQuery that the theme uses. You can get the latest version of the script from http://jquery.com/

  The jquery-1.8.1.min.js file can be saved to the same location as the current version – wp-content/themes/theme-traject/js/ – then you can update the reference in the header.php file by replacing this reference:

  wp_register_script('jquery', ($themePath ."js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"), false, '1.4.2');

  With the new one:

  wp_register_script('jquery', ($themePath ."js/jquery-1.8.1.min.js"), false, '1.8.1');

  It’s worth a try. Other than that, I’m clueless. On my iMac your form works properly across all major browsers, and even a couple of minor ones. You might try opening your JavaScript console in IE to see if any errors are being generated. I’ll run it past @andy to see if he has any ideas.

• Taran

  said

  Yay! Updating the JQuery worked. Thank you so much.

  Stoopid IE sucks. (I also had a nightmare with some sites using the Lightbox script in IE today; again updating the js did the trick. Thanks to Microsoft for keeping me out of the pub).

• jeffw

  said

  @taran That’s great. I’m not sure if we have fully tested the Traject theme with the jQuery 1.8.1 script yet, so crossfingers nothing breaks.

• Taran

  said

  Aha – I just checked http://www.thefishrestaurant-westbay.co.uk/ and the featured content bar is now broken in IE9 (Fine in FF and Chrome)
  Any ideas?

• jeffw

  said

  You could try different versions of the jQuery script. It may be possible to find a version that Traject, your plugin and Internet Explorer are all happy with.

  http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.3.min.js
  http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.4.min.js
  http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.min.js

  … and so on.

  I really have no idea why it breaks just Internet Explorer 9. Are you absolutely sure that you are not running IE9 in “compatibility” mode?

• Taran

  said

  No I am not in compatibility mode (I did try it). I’ll try some other versions of JQuery and let you know how I get on.
  Thanks Jeffw
  (Just Googled “jquery ie9″ and got a whole load of results with people griping about it)

• Taran

  said

  jquery-1.8.1 is the only one that allows the ALO easymail plugin to work with your theme, but breaks the featured content bar.

  Perhaps if I ignore it for a while…

• Taran

  said

  Aha I added this to header.php to force compatibility to IE8

  <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE8"/>

  Now it all works.

• jeffw

  said

  Interesting. Thank you for keeping us updated with your progress. So basically the solution is to force IE9 into compatibility mode, yes? Is this still with the jQuery 1.8.1 script being loaded?

• Taran

  said

  That’s right (altho’ weirdly if you go into compatibility mode now it breaks, also broken in MSIE7), and yes I am using jQuery 1.8.1

  I suppose I could’ve simply tried another newsletter plugin…

  Thanks for your help on this.

  Wouldn’t it be good if IE played nice for once?

• jeffw

  said

  Yes, it is frustrating that IE9 continued the Microsoft tradition of deliberate incompatibility with agreed upon standards.

• Taran

  said

  Will you be updating the theme at any point?

• jeffw

  said

  I know there are few little things that need updating, but I’m not sure when @andy intends to release an update.