EventSource and the infinite spinner

[Luigi Montanez]

I'm trying out EventSource:

http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/eventsource/basics/

When I open an EventSource connection and leave it open, Chrome's page-
is-loading spinner in the tab spins as long as the connection is open.
Similarly, the user is presented the X for stop button -- the refresh
button never renders. To the user, it looks like the page never fully
loads.

So it seems that for as long as I keep an EventSource connection open,
Chrome doesn't think that the page is loaded, even though I wait to
open the EventSource connection upon DOM ready. If I press the X for
stop button, the EventSource connection closes, which isn't really
what I want.

Is this the correct behavior? When I was using WebSockets, the spinner
wouldn't spin when the socket connection was open.

- Luigi

[Luigi Montanez]

Follow-up: If I open the EventSource connection from the console, I
don't get the spinner (good!).

But the problem persists if I open the connection inside jQuery's $
(window).load(), which I think should be effectively the same thing as
opening the connection from the console.

[PhistucK]

Perhaps hack it up with setTimeout(function_to_create_an_event_source, 40); (inside $(window).load()) to make it asynchronous and unrelated to the loading of the page.

☆PhistucK

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[Luigi Montanez]

Thanks, that worked.

On Mar 4, 3:58 am, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps hack it up with setTimeout(function_to_create_an_event_source, 40);
> (inside $(window).load()) to make it asynchronous and unrelated to the
> loading of the page.
>

> ☆*PhistucK*

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