These pages deserve to be broken :) -----Original Message----- From: Boris Zbarsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:29 PM To: Shropshire, Andrew A Cc: Mike Wilson; [email protected] Subject: Re: Proposal: Detecting when the user leaves a page due to hitting the back button or typing in a URL or going to a favorite
Shropshire, Andrew A wrote: > For those that don't, making the unload event cancellable won't break > anything (it won't be fired multiple times because the first time it's > fired is the last for the page because it gets unloaded on the first > fire since these existing web apps don't know that it can be cancelled > and thus don't do it). That last part does not follow, though we all wish it did. There are plenty of cases of web apps and web pages doing cargo-cult copy-paste programming, with operations that are no-ops happening all over. If they suddenly stop being no-ops, these pages break. Some research into any web browser bug database would pull up a number of examples. That is, I will bet money there are pages out there that _do_ try to cancel the unload event and that would break if it were actually canceled. -Boris
