Remove $.browser checks to enable support for jQuery 1.9

[daneah]

I realize the documentation suggests linking jQuery 1.8, but for anyone linking to the latest jQuery fancyBox is now broken. jQuery 1.9 removed the $.browser functionality and fancyBox breaks when trying to check if $.browser.msie is true.

[fancyapps]

Well, I really hoped to publish v3 when jQuery 1.9 comes out, but unfortunately, they made a bug (http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13183) that breaks the script. So, looks like that v3 will have to wait and I have to patch current version :/

[daneah]

Ah, that's too bad. Not too big a problem, as it's easy to switch the link over to jQuery 1.8 instead of jQuery-latest. Some people will be in for a surprise though! Thanks for replying, and I look forward to the update!

[yamanote1138]

not sure if it is related, but I was seeing errors in the console like this:

can not read property 'msie' of undefined

I was able to patch, by changing all checks for this:

f.browser.msie

into this:

f.browser && f.browser.msie

not a perfect patch, for sure. but thought I might mention it if it's helpful to anyone.
this at least resolved the issues in the latest version of Chrome.

[JFKDIAZ]

It seems like fancybox v1.3.4 is also affected. Any one using <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> to call jQuery in their current implementations will see issues with any version of fancybox.

[JFKDIAZ]

We'll see lots of questions soon regarding this issue in stackoverflow. I opened this question/answer in the meantime : http://stackoverflow.com/q/14344289/1055987

[fancyapps]

Update to the latest

[blanchma]

I have the latest version of FancyApp and Jquery 1.10 and $.fancybox() returns undefined.

[baszero]

Is there any solution for the combination Fancybox 1.3.x and jQuery 1.9+ (actually I want 1.11) ? Fancybox 2 is not free of charge anymore... So I want to stick with 1.3.x

[SalahAdDin]

But, aren't you using the latest fancybox release version? The 3.0 version branch work for you?
Please, re open this issue.

[baszero]

ALTERNATIVE: For all people having the same issues with 1.3.4 and jQuery 1.9+: you can switch to a very similar (and 100% equally good and free) alternative: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/

I am now using that "lightbox" and it works like a charm with jQuery 1.11 and it is also free.

[SalahAdDin]

It's sad that this repository is "dead".

[baszero]

It's ok to switch from opensource to a commercial version (see Fancybox 2). But as said, you can very easily switch to Magnific Popup, looks actually a lot more modern out of the box than the Fancybox.