Re: ISSUE-38: Window doesn\'t have alert/confirm/prompt from Jim Ley on 2006-03-08 (public-webapi@w3.org from March 2006)

From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:10:31 -0000
To: "Web APIs WG" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-ID: <002d01c642fd$1db1f9c0$2402a8c0@Snufkin>

"Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
> These were excluded on purpose from Window 1.0. Window 1.0 attempts  to be 
> narrowly scoped so that it can be written and reviewed  relatively 
> quickly.

I agree, this cannot be specified quickly - how alert/confirm etc. interact 
with setTimeout differs across implementations.  Also it's not necessary, 
they are poor UI choices that are not currently implemented accessibility.

Cheers,

Jim.

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2006 22:11:20 UTC