WebKit's XHR object is lacking, patch by Sebastian Cohnen, closes COUCHDB-483

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk@810028 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/share/www/script/test/changes.js b/share/www/script/test/changes.js
index 314a52b5..690727af 100644
--- a/share/www/script/test/changes.js
+++ b/share/www/script/test/changes.js
@@ -56,10 +56,15 @@ couchTests.changes = function(debug) {
   } catch (err) {
   }
 
-  if (xhr) {
+  // poor man's browser detection
+  var is_safari = navigator.userAgent.match(/AppleWebKit/);
+  if (!is_safari && xhr) {
     // Only test the continuous stuff if we have a real XHR object
     // with real async support.
 
+    // WebKit (last checked on nightly #47686) does fail on processing
+    // the async-request properly while javascript is executed.
+
     var sleep = function(msecs) {
       // by making a slow sync request, we allow the waiting XHR request data
       // to be received.