Lightbox unreliable on iPhone, iPad?

[Michael Friedlander]

Hi again, thanks for the prompt responses to previous queries. Please refer to http://hardhatphoto.com/ for the following. The site’s not done yet, but there’s enough to see to illustrate the problem below.

Although the gallery lightbox works fine on desktop/laptop, I’m noticing issues when I view my site on iPhone & iPad. After a few images display, I sometimes get an ‘X’ inside of a white shape.

A second issue is that choosing to display a portrait or landscape photo first has major impact on the size of the lightbox on the iPhone/iPad. Choosing a portrait photo gives a much larger lightbox for every photo. The jquery.lightbox.css file isn’t providing clues to this behavior, so I’m wondering if you have any ideas how I can force the maximum image size?

I don’t think either one of these is critical, as I don’t think too of my potential clients will be browsing the site on their iPhones, but other theme users may be attracting other clients.

[Bill Robbins]

Michael,

Great question. I’m swapping out the lightbox gallery in my themes and just updated Foxy this morning. The new script is a bit more friendly with phones too. You can download the update from the downloads section if you’d like to give it a try.

Let me know if you have any trouble,
Bill

[Michael Friedlander]

Fabulous! I’ll get Foxy and try out the gallery. Do you think I can just swap in the new “includes” folder, or is there more to it?

[Bill Robbins]

Michael,

You can copy the updated files into your theme. You’ll need to copy over options.php. In the includes folder, you’ll need to copy over lightbox.php and custom-js.php. In the JS folder, you’ll need to copy over the lightbox folder.

If you run into any trouble, just let me know,
Bill

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