RichFaces with Safari 3 on MacOS 10.5.1

[matteo.spera]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a problem in accessing the livedemo of RichFaces available at http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/index.jsp

Whenever i try to access the page, Safari begins loading and then suddenly closes with no explaination.

This is my configuration:
- Hardware: Apple MacBook, 2Gb Ram
- S.O.: Mac OSX 10.5.1
- Browser: Safari 3.0.4 - build 5523.10

There are no plugins installed on Safari
System is up to date with Apple automatic updates.

Thank you in advance

[khennig]

... yes, you can't use the current version 3.1.2 of Richfaces with up to date Mac OS X versions like 10.5 or 10.5.1 using the system default Browser Safari 3, i.e. any application that uses Webkit (Omniweb, Dashboard etc.).

Also see http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=122850

[matteo.spera]

Is there any chance of supporting Safari 3 in the next future?

And what about Safari 2? Is it supported?

Thanks for the reply.


Regards

[khennig]

... Safari 2.0 is supported as stated in 3.1.2 richfaces_reference.pdf.

Sorry for not making clear: I'm not part of the richfaces development team. I just detected the same problem and found out: Only some RichFaces compents crash Safari (e.g. rich:menuItem) and it doesn't crash at all if JavaScript is turned off. I don't know how to debug because it just crashes without a meaningful message (see http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=122850)

[khennig]

Try running a nightly build of the open source Safari browser engine WebKit (webkit.org). The WebKit.app starts Safari but uses the nightly build as browser engine (as far as I understood the trick).

With the nightly build of WebKit non of my test cases (e.g. RichFacesLiveDemo) crashes Safari any more:
- Mac OS 10.5.1
- Safari 3.0.4
- WebKit r28383

There is also a JavaScript Debugger included in the WebKit called Drosera.

[khennig]

See http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-1462 ... for a workaround.