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Asked: 2026-06-04T20:48:22+00:00

I’ve got an ecommerce site ready to go live but am experiencing issues on

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I’ve got an ecommerce site ready to go live but am experiencing issues on IE 7/8 on Windows XP

The site loads up fine in IE on Windows 7 but on XP every page load I get the “Done” text in the statusbar and the browser just freezes for 7 – 10 seconds

I’ve gone through my javascript and made sure all DOM manipulation is done in a document ready function and I’ve put the site through the W3C validator and it’s only moaning about a couple unencoded ampersands in URLs

Has anybody experienced this before? And did you manage to get it resolved?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Right, after spending a stupid amount of time debugging I figured out fancybox 1.3.4 is responsible for the crash/hang! In particular is this block of CSS:

    .fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-n { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_n.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }
.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-ne { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_ne.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }
.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-e { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_e.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }
.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-se { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_se.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }
.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-s { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_s.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }
.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-sw { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_sw.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }
.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-w { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_w.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }
.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-nw { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancybox/fancy_shadow_nw.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }

    When this CSS block is commented out the page loads with no crashing.

    No idea why that was causing it to happen but hey I’m just happy it’s fixed!

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