VisualEditor: Clicking away before VE loads completely throws JS error
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	• Cmcmahon
	Apr 29 2013, 12:53 AM

Description

VE error when not completely loaded

on any page editable by VE:

invoke VE
immediately click Preferences or other live link

an alert appears saying "Error loading data from server: error. Would you like to retry?"

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Invalid		Jdforrester-WMF	T50426 VisualEditor: Pre-beta needs (tracker)
		Resolved		Esanders	T49813 VisualEditor: Clicking away before VE loads completely throws JS error

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 1:19 AM

• bzimport set Reference to bz47813.

From Ed's comment:

In ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.prototype.tearDownToolbar, this.toolbar is
undefined if the editor hasn't finished loading.

Actually, this looks like a different bug (but in the same loop).

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64333 (Gerrit Change Ide5def0e983bab49108b40008fc170957c7fc2a2)

Merged; will go out with wmf5.