As you know, I'm a very strong advocate of this change. I think even if other ports aren't interested in experimenting with this change at the current time, that we should proceed to experiment with it in Chromium. I would very much like us to have data about how many sites are impacted, so that we can share that with others.
-Darin On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Sreeram Ramachandran <[email protected]>wrote: > We'd like to disallow modal dialogs (i.e., those arising from calls to > alert, confirm, prompt or showModalDialog) during unload events > (beforeunload, unload and pagehide) [1]. Chromium wants to do this > [2]. Since this affects web compatibility, I'd like to get agreement > from the other webkit ports as well. > > The benefits are: > + Fewer annoyances for users who are trying to leave a page. > + In the case of tab close, allows the browser to hide the tab before > it has finished running the unload or pagehide event handlers (doesn't > apply to beforeunload); gives the impression of better performance. > > This doesn't affect returning a non-null value from beforeunload; that > will still cause the browser to show the stay-or-leave dialog. We > think that is sufficient to satisfy legitimate needs to warn the user > about data loss, etc. > > Outside webkit, this has been discussed on whatwg, but without a > definite conclusion [3]. Firefox seems to be considering this as well > [4]. > > All in favour, say aye! > > [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56397 > [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=68780 > [3] > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-February/025080.html > [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391834 > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >
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