Re: [PageVisibility] Are visibility change events synchronous?

In Chromium, the visibility state (as WebKit sees it) is modified from an
IPC message (i.e., from a shallow call stack).  It is completely
asynchronous to actual tab changes that happen in a separate process.

-Darin

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> If there is a visibility change, is the visibility change event fired
> synchronously?
>
> Note that this is sort of page-observable: a page could poll the
> visibilityState and see whether it matches the previous state without having
> seen an event.  Then again, it's hard to tell that situation apart from one
> where some other script called stopImmediatePropagation on the event and
> then dispatched a new event...
>
> My personal preference would be to allow or require asynchronous firing;
> the alternative involves, e.g. a tab switch triggering synchronous JS
> execution before it completes, which is not great for users navigating
> across tabs using the keyboard.
>
> -Boris
>
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