White screen -- sometimes

[iherman]

In some circumstances I have some files that display a blank, white screen. It is not deterministic, though; sometimes it displays properly, sometimes it does not.

I have cut it back into a small example file at: https://www.w3.org/2017/02/rperror/pr.html

the file is relatively minimal. It has a link to a css file, but that is all. The problem is: sometimes it displays properly, sometimes it does not (I tried several times, every time with a shift reload.) It also depends on browsers; it seems to be worse on FF, but the error also happens in Safari or Chrome.

In some cases:-( if one removes a paragraph, or removes the css link, then it improves things. Is there a race condition somewhere?

[marcoscaceres]

Confirmed. Seems to be breaking near:

setAttribute("aria-"

in js/core/ui.js

[marcoscaceres]

Thanks for also providing the test case, super helpful. Will try to fix first thing in the morning.

[iherman]

You are welcome, @marcoscaceres. Good luck!

[marcoscaceres]

patch didn't apply properly... trying again.

[tidoust]

Not sure if that's related but note white screen seems to occur everytime both on Firefox and Edge right now (for all specs I tried to load). I don't see any error reported by Firefox in the Console.

[marcoscaceres]

@tidoust, yeah, it's related. Just released a patch. Seeing if it's fixed.

[marcoscaceres]

heh, can I blame AWS even though it's unrelated?

[marcoscaceres]

Ok, fixed. @iherman and @tidoust, can you confirm with a hard reload. The ReSpec version should be 10.5.9

[tidoust]

I confirm everything's back to normal, including AWS, @marcoscaceres. Thanks!

Fixing Web specs by making them disappear is a nice feature, though. Worth an opt-in parameter, perhaps? ;)

[iherman]

Ok, fixed. @iherman <https://github.com/iherman> and @tidoust <https://github.com/tidoust>, can you confirm with a hard reload. The ReSpec version should be 10.5.9

I do! Thanks.