Re: [Engine-devel] IE9 Issue with UI Plugin

-----Original Message----- From: Vojtech Szocs [mailto:vszocs@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:54 AM To: Hopper, Richard Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org; Morrissey, Christopher Subject: Re: IE9 Issue with UI Plugin Hi Ricky, code running in the iframe (custom dialog content) can close the dialog in the following way: 1, send message to your plugin to indicate the dialog needs to be closed: parent.postMessage('CloseMyDialog', '*'); 2, your plugin intercepts the message via MessageReceived function and closes the dialog: MessageReceived: function(data, sourceWindow) { switch (data) { case 'CloseMyDialog': window.alert('About to close dialog'); api.closeDialog('my-dialog'); break; } } If the above doesn't work for you, it could mean that: - MessageReceived function isn't invoked - make sure to have [*] before api.register() call - api.closeDialog() function isn't working - in this case I need to fix it for IE9 [*] accept message events from iframe (custom dialog content) origin api.options({ allowedMessageOrigins: 'http://nicedomain:8080' /* OR */ allowedMessageOrigins: ['http://nicedomain1:123', 'https://nicedomain2:345'] }); I'm going to investigate this issue on IE9 myself to see if the above code is really working there. Vojtech ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Hopper" <Richard.Hopper(a)netapp.com&gt; > To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org, "Christopher Morrissey" > <Christopher.Morrissey(a)netapp.com&gt; > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:16:03 PM > Subject: IE9 Issue with UI Plugin > > Hi Vojtech, > > I had previously sent you an email about IE9 compatibility where the > problem we were having was solved by omitting console logging when a > console was unavailable (i.e. IE). However, it is looking like IE9 may > have a bigger issue with regards to the plugin framework. > > Now that we have gotten dialogs to open via dynamically inserted > buttons within RHEV tabs (for example, a NetApp button in the Storage > tab), we can go through our whole process with the exception of > closing the window. In all other browsers, our dialog will close as > expected, but in IE the window remains open. It can be closed by > hitting the red "x" in the corner, but it appears the code in the > frame itself cannot close the window, with a console message in the dev tools of IE9 showing an error of "'Math' is undefined". > I've read up on this, and it seems like this is a very widespread > error in Internet Explorer concerning the manner/order in which > iframes are dynamically inserted. > > I've copied engine-devel in case anyone has similar issues/solutions, > but it seems as though we need some sort of clause in the plugin > framework for IE when it comes to dynamic insertion of new windows. > > - Ricky Hopper >