Chrome's loading indicator keeps spinning during XMLHttpRequest

javascript ajax google-chrome comet long-polling

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Solution 1

I shamelessly stole Oleg's test case and adjusted it a bit to simulate long-polling.

load.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
  <title>Demonstration of the jQery.load problem</title>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
  <script>
  jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    $('#main').load("test.php");
  });
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id='main'></div>
</body>
</html>

test.php:

<?php
  sleep(5);
?>
<b>OK!</b>

The result is interesting: in Firefox and Opera, no loading indicator is shown during XMLHTTPRequests. Chrome lets it spinning... I suspect Google Wave doesn't use long polling anymore (but, for instance, polls every X seconds, to save resources), but I can't test it, as I don't have an account.

EDIT: And I figured it out: after adding a little delay in loading test.php, which can be as small as possible, the loading indicator stops after load.html has been loaded:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
  setTimeout(function () {
    $('#main').load("test.php");
  }, 0);
});

Somehow, as is confirmed in a comment on another answer, when the browser gets control back to finish page rendering, the indicator stops spinning. Another advantage is that the request cannot be aborted by pressing Esc.

Solution 2

Sorry for my general answer, but if you want to have a program which are more browser independent you should use jQuery or other your favorite library instead of low level XMLHttpRequest and ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP").

EDITED: I create two very simple HTML files: test.htm and load.htm and placed there in the same directory on a web site (try this one URL http://www.ok-soft-gmbh.com/jQuery/load/load.htm). I can't see effect which you describes in you question. Compare this files with your examples and you will solve your problem.

load.htm:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
          "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
          "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head">
  <title>Demonstration of the jQery.load problem</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    $('#main').load("test.htm");
  });
  </script>
</head>

<body>
  <div id='main'></div>
</body>
</html>

test.htm:

<b>OK!</b>

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Martin Konecny

Software-developer for Lucova. Some of my favourite answers: http://stackoverflow.com/a/34823421 http://stackoverflow.com/a/30362874 http://stackoverflow.com/a/24007536 http://stackoverflow.com/a/16641452

Updated on July 19, 2020

Comments

Martin Konecny almost 4 years

I'm writing an AJAX web app that uses Comet/Long Polling to keep the web page up to date, and I noticed in Chrome, it treats the page as if it's always loading (icon for the tab keeps spinning).

I thought this was normal for Google Chrome + Ajax because even Google Wave had this behaviour.

Well today I noticed that Google Wave no longer keeps the loading icon spinning, anyone know how they fixed this?

Here's my ajax call code

var xmlHttpReq = false;
// Mozilla/Safari
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
   xmlHttpReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
// IE
else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
   xmlHttpReq = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlHttpReq.open('GET', myURL, true);
xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
xmlHttpReq.onreadystatechange = function() {
   if (xmlHttpReq.readyState == 4) {
      updatePage(xmlHttpReq.responseText);
   }
}
xmlHttpReq.send(null);