Search field does not get focus in IE8 when clicked directly following page load

[radarminnet]

To see this behavior, just fire up the Wicket-Select2 Examples page in IE8 and click the single select input field. Most of the times, the result will look something like this:

instead of:

The bug is intermittent – the search field is focused correctly sometimes. Focusing some other element on the page before clicking the select2 seems to help. Also, it works after the select2 has been activated once.

The screenshots were made using Internet Explorer version 8.0.7600.16385

It seems this bug was introduced in v2.2.