Re: [webkit-dev] Disallowing modal dialogs during unload events

2011-04-08 Thread Ojan Vafai
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: Side note: when I see a dialog upon leaving a webpage, it is almost always the beforeunload dialog. I'm not sure I have ever seen a regular alert, prompt, confirm, or showModalDialog when leaving the page. This is part of

Re: [webkit-dev] Disallowing modal dialogs during unload events

2011-04-07 Thread Darin Fisher
As you know, I'm a very strong advocate of this change. I think even if other ports aren't interested in experimenting with this change at the current time, that we should proceed to experiment with it in Chromium. I would very much like us to have data about how many sites are impacted, so that

Re: [webkit-dev] Disallowing modal dialogs during unload events

2011-04-07 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
Is there data on: - The user impact of modal dialogs being fired from before unload, unload or page hide - how often does this happen? - The Web compatibility impact of removing this functionality (are the sites that do it using it for seemingly legitimate reasons)? I can think of two ways to

Re: [webkit-dev] Disallowing modal dialogs during unload events

2011-04-07 Thread Sreeram Ramachandran
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:54, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: Is there data on: - The user impact of modal dialogs being fired from before unload, unload or page hide - how often does this happen? - The Web compatibility impact of removing this functionality (are the sites that do