Comments on: jQuery document ready bug in Safari / WebKit

By: sam

sam — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:25:26 +0000

Thanks so much for pointing out that this is a known/tracked issue with jQuery. I wasted a nice sunny afternoon wondering WTF was happening, and why Chrome/Safari would run the script as intended as long as I was hitting the Back button in the browser to access the page. Reloading the page would cause the slideshow I’m implementing to disappear.

Moving the JS files to the bottom of the page worked for me.

Using window.load wasn’t possible because of FOUC (not to be confused with f#ck!!!).

By: LA

LA — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:18:54 +0000

What a weird bugger this is. This solution saved me. Thanks!

By: Steve Whiteley

Steve Whiteley — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:20:50 +0000

@IanP I sat head in hands over this issue for a number of hours so decided to share a few solutions.

I’m glad this has help save a few other people like yourself a great deal of time and frustration.

Oh and does the offer of free beer still stand?!

By: IanP

IanP — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:12:53 +0000

I owe you beer. Oh my goodness… two and half days this problem has been driving me insane. Thank you! I went with your jQuery(window).load() suggestion, the positioning of the CSS made no difference.

By: katsuo11

katsuo11 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:59:51 +0000

About the “patch” you mentionned, note that ‘jQuery.browser.safari’ returns true also for Chrome (based on Safari’s Webkit), this can lead to confusion.

For greater readability, we can use ‘$.browser.webkit’ who will return true for any webkit based browser.

thanks for the article,

kat

By: Le Roux

Le Roux — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:31:54 +0000

I don’t find that only including jQuery after CSS helps. I got around it by just setting the img tag’s width and height attributes, because I know the values in my CMS already.

I wonder if this kind of bug in library code doesn’t positively affect webkit’s benchmark performance, because that event fires earlier than it should.

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