If you're having issues in Opera, then I assume that there's something else at play here, since we're just using the native DOMContentLoaded event that they trigger.
Do you have a simple page online, anywhere, that demonstrates the issue? --John On Dec 3, 2007 12:59 AM, moe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > i spent the last half hour reading up on this and it > seems that this bug was supposed to be fixed. at least > the only related and still open ticket that i can find > in trac refers to safari - which i'm not testing. > > well, here it strikes again. > > i can unfortunately not provide a complete test-case as > i haven't managed to reproduce it from scratch and the > page where it happens is private (corporate foobar). > > well, here's the meat that i can provide for now: > > * works well in firefox > > * fires too early in IE7 and opera > > * seems to only affect reasonable complex pages > where load/render times come into play > > * happens in conjunction with roundcorners-canvas from > http://code.google.com/p/jquery-roundcorners-canvas/ > > the code that triggers the problem: > > $(function() { > $('#bigbox').corner("round 5px"); > } > > this works fine in firefox but blows up in opera > (every time) and in IE7 (roughly every second time). > wrt opera you may take "blows up" quite literally > as it annihilates the page layout to the point of > unreadability; page gets overwidth, floats jump > to just about anywhere. seems like roundcorners- > canvas does some funny things when the DOM > (or something else?) is not complete. i > even had opera crash multiple times. > it's not as bad in IE7, there it just fails > silently (no rounding) without further impact. > > > regardless i can make it work in all browsers (100%) > using the following workaround: > > $(function() { > setTimeout( > function() { > $('#bigbox').corner("round 5px"); > }, 500 > ); > } > > i'm positive that this must be a timing issue because > it also strikes when i remove all other javascript > and css, except the includes of jquery and > roundcorners-canvas. > > it doesn't seem to matter where i include the above code snippets. > they behave the same when included inline at the top or bottom > (before </body>) of the page and when included from an external > js file. i also get identical behaviour when i omit the > $(function())-wrapper, except that the variant without > the timer will then also fail in firefox. > > so, am i missing something obvious here (ouch!) or > has our ol'friend the timing bug returned? > > > regards, moe > > >
