On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 7/5/12 1:50 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > > Seems like a bug in Firefox, a violation of HTML5 even. The slow > > script dialog should not allow an event loop to nest. Cc'ing Boris for > > his opinion (this may be a known bug on file, my memory dims with > > age). > > [...] Say the user decides to close the tab or window when they get the > slow script prompt (something that I think is desirable to allow the > user to do, personally). Should this close the tab/window without firing > unload events (a spec violation)
That's not a script violation, it's just equivalent to turning off scripts briefly and closing the browsing context. > or should it fire them while other script from the page is on the stack > and at some random point in its execution (hey, another spec violation)? The spec allows user agents to abort scripts (with or without catchable exceptions) upon a timeout or upon user request, so it wouldn't be a spec violation either way. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#killing-scripts -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
