*Windows* IE11, Chrome: Navigation buttons are blocked while modal dialog is shown. Firefox: Navigation buttons remain usable.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Majid Valipour <maji...@chromium.org> wrote: > > A very common abuse is that when pulling the mouse to hit the back > > button because you are not interested in a page, a hover comes up and > > when the hover comes up, the back button no longer works. > > Does 'hover' refer to modal dialog e.g., window.alert? > That is the only way I know that you can block a user to click back button. > Here is a simple page that does this: http://jsbin.com/fuwosaxefa > > That behavior is a side-effect of how a browser may decide to implement > modal dialog which is dependent also on the OS. I tested a few browsers on > Linux & Mac and this is what I found: > > *Mac* > Firefox, Chrome, Safari: Navigation buttons are usable while modal dialog > is shown. > *Linux* > Chrome: Navigation buttons are block while modal dialog is shown. > Firefox: Navigation buttons remain usable. > *Windows* > ???? > > Perhaps this is worth a non-normative note in the spec in "user-prompt" > section [1] > > [1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#user-prompts > > Majid > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:38 AM Delfi Ramirez <del...@segonquart.net> > wrote: > > > Agree. > > > > May it be done within the History API spec? > > > > Just wondering. > > > > --- > > > > Delfi Ramirez > > > > My digital signature [1] > > > > +34 633 589231 > > del...@segonquart.net [2] > > > > twitter: delfinramirez > > > > IRC: segonquart Skype: segonquart [3] > > > > http://segonquart.net > > > > http://delfiramirez.info > > [4] > > > > On 2016-04-13 21:44, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > > > It needs to be made very clear as a web standard that no JavaScript > > action can disable UI functions such as the back button. > > > > > > A very common abuse is that when pulling the mouse to hit the back > > button because you are not interested in a page, a hover comes up and > when > > the hover comes up, the back button no longer works. > > > > > > This is a browser UI issue but it needs to specified that browsers must > > not disable the back button in response to JavaScript. The web is enough > of > > a cesspool as it is. > > > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] http://delfiramirez.info/public/dr_public_key.asc > > [2] mail:%20del...@segonquart.net > > [3] skype:segonquart > > [4] http://delfiramirez.info > > >
