ICEfaces
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  2. ICE-3354

ICEfaces components are unresponsive on IE after interaction with outputMedia/Flash component

          Details

          • Type: Bug Bug
          • Status: Closed
          • Priority: Critical Critical
          • Resolution: Duplicate
          • Affects Version/s: 1.6.2, 1.7
          • Fix Version/s: 1.7.2
          • Component/s: ICE-Components
          • Labels:
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          • Environment:
            All

            Description

            A simple Flash chart is being used with an outputMedia component. When the chart is clicked it alerts the user with a JavaScript alert. In IE7 when the chart is clicked the alert is shown but once the alert is closed all of the ICEfaces components on the page are unresponsive until a browser refresh occurs. This issue does not happen in FireFox. A sample application has been developed that shows this behavior in action. It uses the address demo application with the outputMedia component.

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              duplicates

              Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. ICE-1915 submit broken after link window.open() navigation in IE

              • Major - Major loss of function.
              • Closed

              Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. ICE-3470 Use of javascript: protocol in href attribute of an anchor tag causes IE to stop working

              • Major - Major loss of function.
              • Closed

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                Deryk Sinotte added a comment -

                So this problem is an old friend and we need to document it somewhere more highly visible both internally (product support , developers) and externally (customers, users). Perhaps there is a programmatic solution as well - or at least some way we could log a warning. In any event, we've run into this several times, always under duress/panic and it can take a certain amount of work to find depending on where it's hiding.

                The datasets for their Flash graphing component look like this:

                <dataset seriesName='Talk Time' color='153E7E' ratio='100' alpha='100'>
                <set value='69.0' link="JavaScript:alert('Got here ... 1st bar!');" />
                </dataset>

                The goal is to to have an alert popup when you click on one of the bars in the graph. The problem is that with IE, when you use the javascript: protocol as an action for any kind of link, IE runs window.unload which, with ICEfaces, is bad because it unloads the client bridge. That's why things become unresponsive and that's why a reload of the page basically fixes it (the bridge is reloaded). Since I don't know the Flash graphing package in question, it's difficult to provide a workaround.

                1) They may be able to call the JavaScript in another way. Perhaps there is another attribute of the <set> tag that allows this.

                2) They could provide an actual link to a real pop-up window rather than use the javascript: protocol.

                Not sure if there is a way for us to figure out how window.unload is called. If we could detect that the javascript: protocol triggered it, maybe we could at least log a warning.

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                Deryk Sinotte added a comment - So this problem is an old friend and we need to document it somewhere more highly visible both internally (product support , developers) and externally (customers, users). Perhaps there is a programmatic solution as well - or at least some way we could log a warning. In any event, we've run into this several times, always under duress/panic and it can take a certain amount of work to find depending on where it's hiding. The datasets for their Flash graphing component look like this: <dataset seriesName='Talk Time' color='153E7E' ratio='100' alpha='100'> <set value='69.0' link="JavaScript:alert('Got here ... 1st bar!');" /> </dataset> The goal is to to have an alert popup when you click on one of the bars in the graph. The problem is that with IE, when you use the javascript: protocol as an action for any kind of link, IE runs window.unload which, with ICEfaces, is bad because it unloads the client bridge. That's why things become unresponsive and that's why a reload of the page basically fixes it (the bridge is reloaded). Since I don't know the Flash graphing package in question, it's difficult to provide a workaround. 1) They may be able to call the JavaScript in another way. Perhaps there is another attribute of the <set> tag that allows this. 2) They could provide an actual link to a real pop-up window rather than use the javascript: protocol. Not sure if there is a way for us to figure out how window.unload is called. If we could detect that the javascript: protocol triggered it, maybe we could at least log a warning.
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                Deryk Sinotte added a comment -

                The original case where we document this issue is ICE-1915

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                Deryk Sinotte added a comment - The original case where we document this issue is ICE-1915
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                Mircea Toma added a comment -

                I cannot figure out what is going on. The window.onunload or window.onbeforeunload events are not triggered when clicking on the graph bars.

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                Mircea Toma added a comment - I cannot figure out what is going on. The window.onunload or window.onbeforeunload events are not triggered when clicking on the graph bars.

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                    Reporter:
                    Arran Mccullough
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