Re: Proposal: Detecting when the user leaves a page due to hitting the back button or typing in a URL or going to a favorite from Bil Corry on 2009-01-05 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2009)

From: Bil Corry <bil@corry.biz>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:06:33 -0600
To: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <49623E19.5020108@corry.biz>

Giovanni Campagna wrote on 1/5/2009 10:48 AM: 
> This control would be useful also in case of infinite loops or 10'000 alert
> windows: user presses STOP and JS is disabled temporary

This problem was recently discussed on WHATWG:

 http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-December/017769.html

My demo that is listed (http://www.corry.biz/neverleave.lasso) will require you forcibly terminate your browser, so open it with a browser you want to forcibly terminate.


- Bil

Received on Monday, 5 January 2009 17:07:17 UTC