IE 8 + Slideshow causing domain shutdown on LAN

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Hi! Been testing Slideshow 2 (v147/Mootools 1.2.1) for a client's site on one 
of our development 
domains. I really like it. However, the client was complaining that on machines 
running IE 8 the 
slideshow would slow to a crawl and stop after only a few slides. 

The slideshow worked fine on all my usual test machines (Mac Safari/Firefox; PC 
IE 6). So I went 
to test on the only machine we have here running IE 8: a laptop that connects 
wirelessly to our 
LAN. I tried accessing the page with the slideshow on it, and it did indeed 
seem to get stuck in 
some sort of recursive loop. The browser activity bar showed a perpetual 
download of the 
progress indicator PNGs, but the image never progressed. So I quit IE 8 on that 
machine and 
moved back to my workstation.

Shortly after that I noticed that no one in our office could access our own 
domains. All other 
internet traffic was normal, but we couldn't see anything coming from our web 
hosting provider, 
including mail.

Even odder, our domains were perfectly visible to anyone outside our LAN! It 
was as if we had 
firewall blacklisted ourselves. This blockage continued until I reset our cable 
modem router.

I didn't put two and two together until I went back to the IE8 laptop and tried 
testing the 
Slideshow 2 page again. Down went our domain again!

Let me guess: this is the result of some poorly documented change Microsoft 
made to IE that 
has changed the ball game for developers.

If that's the case, I'm guessing a fix is a long way off, so I'm thinking I 
will have to implement 
some other slideshow app. Which is too bad.

If I can assist in bugshooting, please let me know; still have the toxic page 
code.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by zmd.jdav...@gmail.com on 26 May 2010 at 3:17

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Do you have a link I could look at?

Original comment by aeron.gl...@gmail.com on 26 May 2010 at 11:16

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Sure thing!

http://zgraphicsdev.com/bulklift2/fun-place-to-work-TOXIC.html

...is my initial attempt, plus a bug fix I read about online (Line 6) that 
didn't solve the lockup problem for my 
client in IE 8.

Again, I had no problem with Slideshow in any browser other than IE 8.

http://zgraphicsdev.com/bulklift2/fun-place-to-work-TOXIC-2.html 
was my attempt to plug a more recent version of MooTools into the mix to see if 
that would help. This was 
the file I was viewing that brought down our domain within our LAN.

The problem machine is a Dell laptop, running XP, SP 3, running IE 8.

Original comment by zmd.jdav...@gmail.com on 27 May 2010 at 2:59

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Original comment by aeron.gl...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 6:14

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Use the latest download.

Original comment by aeron.gl...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2011 at 3:03

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