Hi Chad, Tahnks for your message.
I just sent you an email. Best, Tobie On Feb 4, 3:09 am, Chad Russell <chad.russ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, we're having some issues with the prototype library over here > at MySpace. We have OpenSocial apps that live on our profile/home > pages in an iframe that are built by third parties. Those apps are > allowed to use prototype.js. An IE bug is causing browsers to crash > when prototype is loaded into those iframes. When the browser window > is closed before the iframe's DOM has finished loading the browser > goes into an infinite loop launching new browser windows/tabs until > all memory is exhausted. > > Here's a test page, first is my outer page (outer.html): > <html> > <head></head> > <body><iframe src="inner.html#test"></iframe></body> > </html> > > And this is inner.html: > <html> > <head></head> > <body> > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/ > libs/prototype/1.6.0.3/prototype.js"></script> > <!--script type="text/javascript">var a = document.createTextNode > ('');</script--> > </body> > </html> > > If you open up outer.html in IIS (doesn't seem to work locally for > some reason, maybe the DOM loads too quickly) and immediately close it > the browser blows up. You may need to try it a couple times to get it > to fire off. > > It also happens when the commented line is switched in inner.html, the > cause is the document.createTextNode call found here: > > Object.extend(String.prototype.escapeHTML, { > div: document.createElement('div'), > text: document.createTextNode('') > > }); > > This was introduced in 1.5.1. The real cause seems to be calling > div.innerHTML before the DOM has loaded, as I tried to rewrite > createTextNode using innerHTML and found the same issue. > > So, can you guys revert back to the 1.5.0 version of escapeHTML that > doesn't create the text node on DOM load? Right now we're looking at > banning prototype, which we'd obviously rather not have to do. > > Thanks and let me know if you need more info! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-core-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
