IE 8 Nivo slider not working

[zarkokuvalja]

his post is to help out folks who had a very frustrating experience with Nivo Slider on SOME instances of IE 8.

What would happen is that the script simply wouldn't fire and Developer tools, therefore, wouldn't show any errors etc.

For me this would result in just seeing the "loading" gif and my fist penetrating the monitor in slow motion.

Mind you I am a Javascript rookie so my explanation might be wrong, but the solution worked for me.

It seems some IE8's had trouble with

$(window).load(function() {
$('#slider').nivoSlider();
});

in the sense that (I am guessing) it wanted to load all the images for the slider first and then it would consider the window "loaded".
Turns out IE8 is actually an ambitious little bastard.

Changing the above to

$(function() {
$('#slider').nivoSlider();
});

sorted everything out as IE didn't wait for the images and just went ahead and fired off the script.

Hope this helps out someone.

[fissible]

To get NivoSlider working in IE 8, be sure your script tags use the type="text/javascript" instead of type="application/javascript"

[ghost]

Thanks a lot zarkokuvalja! your solution worked perfect for me on blogger :)