hi, i think the only browser that does this perfectly is Opera. In Opera, if a background tab needs to show an alert, it will wait until the tab comes into focus to show the alert. Till then, all other tabs work perfectly and all the javascript in all other tabs also work perfectly.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:51 PM, EvertC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Javascript Alert() is stealing the user attention and making other > tabs inaccessible. > This is an annoying behavior that haunted the web users for a long > time but seems like nobody like to take the afford to improve this > annoying attention stealing and rude behavior of the browser (or web > site). Alert() as its original designed to alert the user and halt the > Javascript execution. > > Example of annoyance: > When i'm writing an email in Gmail, a web site on one of the tab > suddenly prompt for you to press the OK button because some > "important" events had happened. Instead of replying the alert later > on... i'm forced to stop writing my email and respond to the rude > prompt otherwise I cant access the Gmail tab and continue composing my > email. > > I'm hoping that the development team can make the alert to be ... a > little bit more gentle.. instead of forcing the user to respond to a > particular alert.. how about highlight (or do something to indicate > there is an alert on the particular tab) the tab that trigger the > alert instead of pop out the message box directly. > > > -- Sujith Sreedhar Ph: +91-9895856364 http://www.keralainfolink.com/ http://softreview.co.cc/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
