Well, the first version of the catfish didn’t go well.? Lots of errors in IE and other flakiness.? Back to the drawing board and now we have a second version that shows some promise.? I went back to basics, grabbing the example from SitePoint because I was having a brain-disconnect on the other example that was using the Prototype library.
Instead, I seized another opportunity to learn something and decided to use jQuery, a really cool lightweight Javascript library (based on moofx I think).? Right now I’m using it to do a nice fade-in for the graphic but we can expand it to cover other things depending on the demands of the site.
I’ll also being using jQuery for a really cool consulting job I’m doing that requires some Ajaxian goodness.
It appears you decided to scrap the jquery version and use a more basic variant.
I went through some trouble trying to get jquery, thickbox and the catfish to work on a forum, and had lots of trouble with IE… no scrollbars when thickbox was loaded, though the jquery catfish worked fine if I did not run thickbox as well.
I have gone back to lightbox + your implementation of the catfish, though I’d like to use jquery if/when thickbox can be made to play nice with the catfish!
Hey PG,
Actualy, the version that is mentioned in my original post is the OLDER version. We’re using the newer catfish powered by jQuery on some of our newer sites. http://www.golfforum.com is a good example of that.
With the help of our HTML/CSS expert we managed to get it working with all browsers except for Opera 9.1 on PC. I have to get my Parallels install up and running again to debug that one.
Using IE7, I get no scrollbar on golfforum.com — looks like either it’s my IE7 browser, or there is indeed a problem. Or maybe you don’t want me to scroll?
Have you verified this is working on IE7? I’ll reinstall IE7 and see if I still have a problem.
…also no catfish ad on IE7 on golfforum.com
Chris, it turns out it was my IE7. I reset it to default and the scrollbar returned. But I wasted 8 hours today trying to figure out how to get the jquery cat and thickbox to work together. GRRRRR!
Thanks for the info, and kudos on the golfforum catfish.
Ooops, another report…
I checked out some of the other forums, e.g. Snowboarding, and found the same “no scrollbar” problem with IE7. If I clicked the close catfish button, the scrollbar went away. There’s definitely still a quirk.