JSONP Long Polling always loading

Question

I'm doing long-polling with JSONP and firefox continually pops up the "Loading" spinner making the page seem like it hasn't finished loading. Is there a way to suppress this?

I've been told that the Orbited team has hacks for suppressing this, but looking through the Orbited.js code I cannot figure out what they are. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

This is a simple fix.. All you have to do is start your polling request with a setTimeout..

Here is some code I use.. It uses jQuery, but I assume you can figure out what you need to and use your library to do the same.

<script type="text/javascript">
  function poll(){
    $.getJSON('/updates', function(json){
      //reconnect since we successfully received data and disconnected
      poll();

      //add something here to do whatever with the recieved data
    });
  }
  /*call the poll function after document has loaded with setTimeout
  if called before the document finishes loading completely it will
  cause a constant loading indication*/
  setTimeout(poll, 1);
</script>