jQuery Mobile pages crash in mobile Safari when tapping away from select (iOS 8)

[ptrln]

Issue description

After updating to iOS 8, every time you tap away from a select, the page crashes, and this error is displayed: A problem has occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded.

Test page (see below)

http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.4.4/selectmenu/

Steps to reproduce

1. Click on the select
2. Select an option (other than the one already selected)
3. Press the angle right icon to "tap" to the next select.
4. Page crashes

Expected outcome

Go to the next input.

Actual outcome

Page crashes and reloads.

Platforms/browsers (including version) and devices tested

Mobile Safari on iOS 8 on iPhone 5, iOS 8 on iPhone 5s. Works in Chrome for iPhone.

jQuery Mobile and jQuery core version used

jQM: 1.4.4
jQuery: 1.10.2

[ptrln]

Also affects jQM 1.3.2.

Older versions seem to be fine.

[slavap]

I'm able to reproduce this bug on iPod Touch, iOS8, Safari. Looks like it's not jqm bug, but rather iOS8 problem. It's not always reproducible, for example starts working after using Done in the same dialog.

[arschmitz]

I can confirm this issue and will look into what we can do here this is a pretty major issue!

[jaspermdegroot]

Is this a duplicate of #7216?

[arschmitz]

No its only iOS8 its not multi-select and its not when you select its only if you try to jump to the next input with the soft keyboard shortcut.

[gabrielschulhof]

Thanks to a colleague with an iOS8 device, I was able to find the root cause of the problem. If you comment the blur() in the change event handler it no longer crashes.

[gabrielschulhof]

A quick git blame reveals that we added the blur in order to fix #5514.