Hey Mike, This eliminates the exception, but the placement of the floating content is different, and it doesn't appear to adjust on window resize. Thanks for the update, and let me know if you need assistance in testing/debugging the new version.
-Josh -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Alsup Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:04 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: IE8 & BlockUI incompatible > There was a thread about this last month that identified a problem with the > use of setExpression in BlockUI. IE8 throws a not implemented exception in > this case. The author noted that the BlockUI demo page works fine in IE8, > which it does. To be honest, I'm not sure why. > > However, the problem does appear to exist, and it is caused by the use of > dynamic properties which have been deprecated in IE8:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537634.aspx > > BlockUI uses expressions to set the height, width, and top styles. > > The temp solution is to run the pages in IE7 emulation mode, but I think a > longer term solution is needed, possibly a callback on widow resize to a > function that sets the style properties statically. > > -Josh Can you test v2.16? It works for me, but then so did the previous one. http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/jquery.blockUI.js?v2.16 Mike