That explains a lot, I read the spec for that quite a few times to make sure that I didn't misunderstand the case and it seemed to me that it isn't really a spec violation. But it surely isn't desired behavior.
Cheers, Jussi On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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