External video timeout

[Alex Botten]

I linked to an incorrect url for an external video in a view, and when I went to edit the view the system "hung" while trying to load the video. I couldn't edit anything else in the view and it didn't time out.

I know this was user error (incorrect url), but at the same time I know our users are likely to make this same error. Should the system timeout?

Alex Botten
IT / Marketing Manager

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This bug was imported from eduforge.org, see:
https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3040&group_id=176&atid=739

[Nigel-catalyst (nigel-catalyst)]

This is an interesting issue to try and deal with.

The reason that it hangs is because we are waiting until the entire DOM is ready before displaying to the user, otherwise the javascript won't be working properly and the page will jump about a lot.

But some things like videos and RSS feeds may well take a long time to load.

We might have to think about:

* Putting short timeouts on things like grabbing RSS feeds
* Replacing slow-loading things with 'loading' messages while the DOM loads, and replace those with the actual items once the page is done.

[Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)]

I am able to reproduce this, but only in IE.

[Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)]

IE won't load the view editor at all until everything else is loaded on the page, so invalid urls in external videos will result in an uneditable view. Fixing this for now by leaving the video embed code out of the view editor page until after the onload event.