some information on what HTML5 uses 'user interaction' for from David Singer on 2012-02-29 (public-tracking@w3.org from February 2012)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:14:38 -0800
To: "public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)" <public-tracking@w3.org>
Message-id: <2CA04067-5D89-4B30-81D9-47A64461FA38@apple.com>

alas, I don't think this helps very much, but I am passing it on in case someone sees a gleam:

> HTML5 has an "allowed to show a pop-up" rule which reflects the concept of explicit user action for enabling window.open: <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#allowed-to-show-a-pop-up>.


David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:15:06 UTC