[Building Sakai] Profile 2 and IE8 issue

Nuno Fernandes nuno at ufp.edu.pt
Thu Jan 7 05:06:20 PST 2010


Too bad it didn't help :(

Web development would be such a pleasure without IE....

Nuno

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the info Nuno.
>
> I don't think this is a fix for my though as all page, panel and window
> HTML fragments have this at the very top of each, nothing else before:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>       xmlns:wicket="
> http://wicket.apache.org/dtds.data/wicket-xhtml1.3-strict.dtd"
>       xml:lang="en"
>       lang="en">
>
> This is indeed a strange issue.
> thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> On 07/01/2010, at 11:45 PM, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
>
> Hi Steve!
>
> No, SiteStats doesn't use Wicket Modal Dialogs, but I think the problem is
> related the ajax response after clicking the button - in SiteStats, IE
> hanged after an ajax response and no other browsers experienced the same
> issue.
>
> I have just found the related SVN commit with the issue I experienced:
>
> http://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn?view=revision&root=contrib&revision=63646
>
> <http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/STAT-182>Actually, it was not related
> with the doc type itself, but with the fact that there were a license
> comment BEFORE the DOCTYPE - that crashed IE!
>
> In your case - and if you do have *anything* before the doctype - you can
> change the "base" html (extended by other wicket pages) or change only the
> page served by the server after clicking the dialog button!
>
> Hope this helps,
> Nuno
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Steve Swinsburg <
> steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nuno,
>>
>> Do you have any more info on your fix? Were you experiencing the same
>> thing? The Doctype for the pages is:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>>       xmlns:wicket="http://wicket.apache.org/dtds.data/wicket-xhtml1.3-strict.dtd"
>>       xml:lang="en"
>>       lang="en">
>>
>> but looking through Sitestats, they are also set to Strict:
>>
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>> <html
>>       xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>>       xmlns:wicket="http://wicket.sourceforge.net/"
>>       xml:lang="en"
>>       lang="en">
>>
>> Does SiteStats use Wicket's ModalWindows?
>>
>> Adam's first issue is a new one too, very odd, considering it doesn't
>> happen in any other browser I've tested on.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/01/2010, at 10:52 PM, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I remember hitting a similar problem (IE hanging) when writing up
>> StiteStats 2.0 (which is based on Wicket too).
>> After some days (!!!) of debugging, I realized that changing the HTML
>> DOCTYPE fixed the issue!!! You can try changing it and check if it solves
>> the issue!
>>
>> Nuno
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Adam Marshall <
>> adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>  When I clicked on add connection I briefly saw the dialogue box and
>>> then got a pop up asking me if I really wanted to navigate away from the
>>> page. I clicked ok and got put at the profile tool's first page. The second
>>> time I tried the brower hung. This with 8.0.6001.18372 on XP.
>>>
>>>
>>> The second time around, whilst the pop up is visible I also get weird
>>> behaviour with the scroll bars on the iframe appearing and disappearing ad
>>> infinitum, this causes the debug link to wobble around the screen. Clicking
>>> cancel
>>>
>>>
>>> let me know if you need me to do more.
>>>
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
>>> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Breuker
>>> *Sent:* 07 January 2010 10:20
>>> *To:* Sakai Developers
>>> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] Profile 2 and IE8 issue
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve Swinsburg, Daniel Robinson and I have been working on an issue with
>>> Profile 2 where IE8 crashes when adding a connection. The strange thing is
>>> that so far only I am experiencing this problem (on multiple machines,
>>> operating systems etc). Daniel cannot reproduce it with IE8 on Sakai
>>> Nightly. Can anyone else please try against
>>> http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8085/portal if they can reproduce this
>>> issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> The steps to reproduce are described in the issue:
>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-146
>>>
>>>
>>> You can add me (mbreuker) as a connection to test.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Nuno Fernandes
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Nuno Fernandes
>
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> Web      | http://codingwithcoffee.com | http://twitter.com/nfgrilo
> Work     | Analyst/Programmer @ UFP-UV [http://elearning.ufp.pt]
>              | Analyst/Programmer @ Sakai Foundation [
> http://sakaiproject.org]
>              | Sakai Fellow 2008 @ Sakai Foundation [
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/6oCTAQ]
> Address | Universidade Fernando Pessoa  [http://www.ufp.pt]
>              | Praça 9 de Abril, 349    | 4249-004 Porto
>              | tel: + 351 22 507 13 00 | fax: + 351 22 550 82 69
>
>
>


-- 
Nuno Fernandes

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Work     | Analyst/Programmer @ UFP-UV [http://elearning.ufp.pt]
             | Analyst/Programmer @ Sakai Foundation [
http://sakaiproject.org]
             | Sakai Fellow 2008 @ Sakai Foundation [
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/6oCTAQ]
Address | Universidade Fernando Pessoa  [http://www.ufp.pt]
             | Praça 9 de Abril, 349    | 4249-004 Porto
             | tel: + 351 22 507 13 00 | fax: + 351 22 550 82 69
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