Sporadic IE8 page loading problem

[glenmacmullin]

My team has written a web application using JSF 2 with Richfaces 3.3.3 and JBoss Seam 2.2 but sometimes in IE8 the page won't finish loading. I'll see "(1 item remaining) Waiting for http://localhost:8080/..." and the buttons won't be skinned.

The problem is very sporadic as I can navigate through my web application hitting pages dozens of time before this problem arises. I've only seen the problem in IE8, but I can't say for certain that it doesn't happen in other browsers too.

We're using the DOCTYPE  XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I've used HttpWatch and Fiddler2 to see if a request is hanging, but I never see any requests waiting to finish.

Has anyone come across this problem too? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[richyclarke]

Hi,

I had exactly this same problem, and again only on IE8.

This was using RichFaces 3.3.3 and JBOSS AS 5.1.

Never managed to track it down though - so sorry can't help you.

I am now in the process of migration to JBOSS AS 6 (Not 7 yet!) and Richfaces 4 with JSF 2 and it has not happenned again (yet).

I'll post back here if it happens again.

Rich

[glenmacmullin]

Thanks for replying Rich. I'm just glad I'm not the only person who's had this problem.

I've done a little digging and Richfaces 3.3.3 uses Prototype Javascript library v1.6.0.3. The next release candidate of Prototype (1.6.1 RC2) fixes IE8 compatibility issues (see http://www.prototypejs.org/blog/releases). So I suspect the problem may be in Prototype.

I'm going to attempt to upgrade Richfaces or upgrade Prototype. If I learn anything else. I'll post it here.

Glen

[glenmacmullin]

The only solution I could find was to build Richfaces from scratch with an upgraded Prototype library.

[roolio13]

We have the same issue. Sometimes, the page doesn't finish loading (some error JS are thrown, first one from prototype ; CSS are not loaded).

Could you please describe which version of prototype do you finaly use ?

Do you have side effects using an updated prototype ?

Thanks

[glenmacmullin]

Sorry for not replying sooner.

I upgraded to prototype 1.7. We're not using many components, but tab, tabPanel, dataTable, calendar, modalPanel, and simpleTogglePanel all worked without problems.

Glen