Hi Bob,
Thanks for letting me know about this forum post.
I had not seen these proposed patches, and while I appreciate Hubert's proposed patch above, it's not a solution that we can deliver to everyone.
We're currently working with the ICEFaces team to see about what solutions could be provided, and thank you Balazs for including details on the RichFaces fix.
The intent of closing that specific ticket is not to drop support for ICEFaces or RichFaces, but rather to say that we're not able to fix it in the portal layer itself because the nature of the problem isn't in the portal layer, but rather in a deployed application.
When we hear word back from and get a fix from ICEFaces, we'll probably commit it to the other ticket linked to this one, since it's specifically in reference to issue with the application.
However, I did some quick hacking around and I do have a workaround that I believe will work (at least it works for the sample applications):
(function() {
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
var frameDoc = frames[frames.length - 1].document;
frameDoc.open();
frameDoc.write(
"<script>var natives = ['String', 'Array', 'Object', 'Date', 'Function', 'RegExp', 'Boolean']; i = natives.length; while(i--){var nativeName = natives[i];var parentObj = parent[nativeName]; var windowObj = window[nativeName];if(parentObj.prototype.toJSON+'' != windowObj.prototype.toJSON+''){parentObj.prototype.toJSON = windowObj.prototype.toJSON;}}<\/script>"
);
frameDoc.close();
})();
</code></pre><br /><br />If you add that script block to the bottom of your Liferay theme (into a script tag right above the closing of your body tag), it will fix the issue. There is one caveat, and that is if the ICEFaces application relies upon the toJSON method of the object behaving as defined by Prototype, then there's the possibility of breakage.<br />But what this code does is restore the toJSON methods to the browser defaults.<br /><br />This is just one possible work around that may work for you, but the root issue of the ICEFaces application being patched is the best long term solution.<br />If I hear anything definitive I'll make sure to keep you guys updated, and if some enterprising community member like Balazs wants to patch it, that will also probably help speed things along.<br /><br />Thanks Bob,</script>
