Internet Explorer compatibility issue

window.open and image transparency

[jonwald]

I'm having an issue with IE that is giving me big headaches. It's not looking kindly on some of my javascript. (Oddly, it's fine with other parts of it, and Netscape, Safari, and Opera have no problem with it.) IE's particular issues seem to come from a couple of slideshows I set up, and also from my use of the window.open command to open a new window. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

My site is www.jonathanwald.com

The specific pages which exemplify the problem are:

[jonathanwald.com...]

In this page, there should be an image in the middle of the curtains, and you should be able to click on it to open a new window with a larger image. I actually think there are two issues here: IE can’t figure out the transparent image (the curtains have a transparent hole in the middle of them, through which the image should appear) and it also has the window.open problem.

[jonathanwald.com...]

On this page, if you click the camera icon, and then click on any of the photos that appear on the right, it should open a new window with a larger version of that photo. But in IE it doesn't.

[jonathanwald.com...]

On this page you should be able to click on any of the images in the etchasketches and open a new window with a larger version of that image. Again, in IE it doesn't.

Oh, how I hate browser compatibility!

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Bernard Marx]

PNG

IE doesn't support PNG opacity (normally).
There are solutions: png IE solutions:
[google.se...]

window.open

Remove the dot from the 'name' argument. IE doesn't like dots or spaces when this set using open.

'jonathanwald.com' --> 'jonathanwaldcom'

This may well be the problem on the other pages too (I haven't checked yet because I suspect it is).

[jonwald]

Thanks I'll try these - and the dot problem could definitely be it, it's on every single one of those problematic scripts.

You rock! I had visions of a major redesign in my head, I'm crossing my fingers this fix works.

Jonathan