This bug was found just after the 1.1.3.1 release - a ticket was opened on it and a new version was provided to those that were effected. The fix will be included in the upcoming 1.1.4 release (which should be coming out today or tomorrow).
--John On 8/7/07, Mike Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > jQuery 1.1.3.1 Safari Crashes > > After upgrading a high-traffic Web site from jQuery 1.1.2 to jQuery > 1.1.3.1, some Safari users started reporting that the Web site would > cause their browsers to crash. The crash would be that Safari would > instantly shut down. > > I set up multiple test environments using clean installs of Mac OS > 10.4.0 through Mac OS 10.4.4 (with some newer 10.4.10 systems already > in place), to determine which versions of Safari experienced this > problem. > > This is the basic test code: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html><head><title></title> > <script src="jquery-1.1.3.1.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script> > </head><body></body></html> > > There is zero functionality in that test code. It is just an include > of the jQuery file. After loading this simple page, Safari 2.0.0 (412) > through 2.0.2 (416.12) immediately crash. The error is 100% > reproducible. Safari 2.0.3 (417.8) works. Safari 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 > passed all of my more complex tests, which simulate the complex > functionality found in the Web site. > > Based on user reports, I suspect that jQuery 1.1.3.1 would also cause > versions of Safari older than 2.0 to crash. One person using Safari > 1.3 reported a crash. I did not try to reproduce this. > > I performed my tests with both the packed version and the unpacked > version. The packed version caused the browser to crash more quickly. > With the unpacked version, I sometimes had to refresh the browser > window a couple times before the crash occurred. > > jQuery 1.1.2 seems to work fine in these older versions of Safari. It > passed all the complex tests, not simply the crash-avoidance test. > > So, for my solution, I have a conditional that uses jQuery 1.1.3.1 for > Safari with version numbers 417 and higher, and jQuery 1.1.2 for > Safari versions between 312 and 416. > > I hope this helps, > Mike Chabot >
