[Plugin: Football Pool] IE8/7 with 2011 theme

It would appear that is actually the fancy box code that is the culprit.

When I commented out the include_js/css lines for this in class-football-pool.php, the site started to work again.

Basically this JS code appears to grind IE 8 & 7 to a halt on every page refresh, so it must be doing some heavy processing each time.

What is this actually used for? Does it matter that I have commented it out? I get a JS error on the page now it’s gone. Will this cause me any issues?

If I edit out the fancy box line in pool.js, the JS error goes away.

It looks to me like I don’t really need the fancy box code unless I’m worried about the stats page. Is that right?

The fancybox is only used on the teams page to display a larger image. Stats page does not need fancybox.
If you comment out the fancybox line, then everything should work just fine. Except the team image is shown in a new window, not a lightbox.

I downloaded a new version of the fancybox code and added it to the development version of my plugin. Maybe that version does not ‘hang’ IE8/7. You may try it. Or indeed just comment out the fancybox functionality.
I don’t have IE7/8 so I can’t really test it. IE9 in IE7/8 standards mode does not hang on the old or new fancybox.

Ok, that’s great. I’ll give it a try at some point (I don’t actually have either IE7 or 8 myself – but it’s on all the work computers where I’m running the pool. Only devs where I work get to use other browsers unfortunately.)
Thanks for the help as always!