I have seen this alot with multiple GWT modules that my team has built. The root of the problem is a timing issue between GWT downloading and executing the moduleLoad and the page actually being done downloading all its content and rendering the host page. I am not surprised that disabling compression helped a few posters because compression adds an additional step for IE to write the data to disk, uncompress, and update the cache (index.dat) with the entry. The additional compression sometimes wreaks havoc since there are bugs in IE that hang threads when there is a lot of dynamic javascript loading static content like gifs and css. If the resource requests are not satsified from cache there are often many aborted http requests made that tie up threads (you can see this with a tool like IEWatch). Alot of times, the hang or issue with onmoduleload will go away when your cache is primed because it avoids the additional aborted calls.
We solved this by doing a few things: 1) Make your onmoduleLoad re-entrant - meaning if its called twice, it will only execute once and the second time won't "fail". 2) Gwt will either call onModuleLoad or IE can call onModuleLoad in its onload methods if Gwt hasn't done it yet. One of them will work! 3) Pre-load any static content on your page -- like CSS and GIFs so that your cache is primed before your GWT app requests content. This will reduce your exposure to timing issues and compression. By doing this we avoided onModuleLoad never being called -- it always works from at least one call b/c IE's body.onload won't fire until all the non-deferred resources have been downloaded. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
