I don't understand what tab-group-modal UI would be like. I'd prefer to do something like auto-cancel alerts that originate from background tabs. Maybe use an alternate, non-modal UI to present the alert text in case that is interesting. We could even flash the background tab to indicate that something happened.
Trying to coerce alerts to be page-modal is just going to hurt a lot and be way more work than the feature could possibly be worth in my opinion. -Darin On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> The problem is that no matter how you cut it, you end up violating the >> run-to-completion (non-reentrant) constraint of javascript. >> This problem is further complicated by the fact that Flash can also cause >> script to execute in the web page, and all web pages use the same Flash >> process (same Flash thread even). >> > > FWIW, we could do "better" here, though probably not perfect, with the > following set of changes: > * Move from one plugin process to one plugin process per tab group, so that > Flash etc. don't introduce additional tab dependencies beyond what JS > introduces. > * Be as aggressive as possible about breaking script dependencies between > tabs. Perhaps we can somehow use the garbage collector to realize a page > doesn't have a reference to the window it just opened and thus can't script > it, or something. The idea is to make tabs be in distinct processes as > frequently as possible. (Perhaps there is even more we can do if we're > willing to break some small part of the web; I'm just speculating wildly.) > * Make alerts tab-group-modal instead of app-modal, and hope that the > typical number of tabs in a tab group is 1. > > PK > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
