Kriesi_image_preloader won’t load in IE / Opera

A friend of mine is using the Newscast for his blog. It is a great looking theme that has an image preloader written in JQuery. It was all looking good in Firefox, but wasn’t displaying properly in IE and Opera.

The javascript fails around line 60 in themes/TFnewscast/js/custom.js:

jQuery('#main').kriesi_image_preloader({delay:100, callback:removeloader});

This can be fixed by surrounding it with a if statement that verifies that you’re not running IE nor opera:

if(!(jQuery.browser.opera || jQuery.browser.msie)){
  jQuery('#main').kriesi_image_preloader({delay:100, callback:removeloader});
}

And that should do it.