- From: Rich Tibbett <richt@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:57:14 +0200
- To: Anssi Kostiainen <anssi.kostiainen@nokia.com>
- CC: ext Ilkka Oksanen <Ilkka.Oksanen@nokia.com>, "public-device-apis@w3.org WG" <public-device-apis@w3.org>, "Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston)" <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
Anssi Kostiainen wrote: > Hi, > > On 29.9.2010, at 18.30, ext Ilkka Oksanen wrote: > >> 29/09/2010 01:58, ext Rich Tibbett kirjoitti: >>> It's similar to window.open() and browser popup blockers. If >>> window.open() is called inline then the user is notified that the >>> popup was blocked. If window.open() is called via a user-initiated >>> click event, the popup is opened directly. >>> >> Do you know if this window.open() behavior is specified somewhere? Or >> is it completely implementation specific? > > Prior to HTML5 window.open() was part of DOM Level 0, i.e. something implemented by Netscape back in the Dark Ages :) > > The HTML5 spec seem to only say how to detect a blocked window [1]: "The [open()] method must return the WindowProxy object of the browsing context that was navigated, or null if no browsing context was navigated". > > The spec does not seem to whitelist any user-initiated events or say anything about script-initiated invocation. Mozilla whitelists change, click, dblclick, mouseup, reset and submit events by default, these can be configured via about:config> dom.popup_allowed_events [2]. IE6 whitelists click and focus, also user configurable to some extend [3]. Not sure about the rest of the browsers. Is Opera's implementation similar to Mozilla's? Opera's implementation is similar to Mozilla but not user configurable (AFAIK). > > Looks like this is implementation specific and cannot be relied on if left unspecified. Any ideas how to route around this? > I have added a section to the Contacts API spec entitled 'API Invocation via DOM Events' + an example of its usage. It is included informatively and might be worth a read: http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/contacts/Overview.html#api-invocation-via-dom-events >> I think the proposal is applicable to the Capture API and its native >> audio/video recorder as well. I believe it is. - Rich > > -Anssi > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#dom-open > [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dom.popup_allowed_events > [3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537632%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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