I've discovered that Lightbox videos don't play correctly in Internet Explorer 7 or below when running Windows via Parallels in OSX on a Mac. The lightbox opens but shows an empty box rather than the video.

In addition to documenting this issue on my website, I noticed that the same failure to play video also occurs when I use Parallels running Windows w/IE7 to visit Stella Power's web page: http://www.stellapower.net/lightbox2

Videos play correctly when using IE7 on a regular Windows computer. The failure only seems to occur in the specific context of Parallels running Windows on a Mac computer.

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stella’s picture

stella commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I don't have Parallels and am not about to pay for it to look at this. It looks like you're the only one that has reported this issue, so it may be something specific to your installation. If you can debug it and if necessary provide a patch, then I will of course consider it, but otherwise I can't do much about this.

sheldon rampton’s picture

sheldon rampton commented

Sure, that's fine. I don't need this fixed particularly for my needs. I only use the Windows/Parallels/Mac combination when I'm doing browser testing for my website. I just thought I should document that this issue exists so you're aware of it.