On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Charles Pritchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> That said, it would still help prevent non-malicious but misbehaving > scripts from accidentally taking over the browser, which can happen > anywhere, even on "trusted" sites. However, that's just one possible way of > dealing with that problem, and browsers should be able to look for less > restrictive solutions (which is what I had in mind when I referred to how > operating systems deal with this). > > "Trusted" sites aren't well defined, so for the time being, I'm fine with > them taking over the browser. > In this case, I'm mostly referring to sites where you've previously clicked "always allow this site to do this"--probably the usual case. Legitimate sites aren't going to deliberately hijack the mouse cursor, but it might happen due to a bug, and I must always be able to escape without having to close the whole browser window. -- Glenn Maynard
