- From: Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:42:51 +0200
Ian Hickson wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > Scripts can actually still run fine even if you navigate
> > away from a page. But there are definitely weird things
> > happening (such as global scope being different from 'window').
>
> Could you elaborate on this? I'm not clear on how to define this.
This may be nothing new, but in DWR we have had to handle a few
cases related to this, and browsers differ. The scenario is that
the user is navigating away from a page that still is doing some
kind of script-related request to the server:
Case 1: The page is doing a request to the server through a hidden
IFRAME that receives a page containing <script>. It differs
whether the request will be allowed to complete and the
script be run. (and window environment may go away)
Case 2: The page is doing a request to the server through XHR. It
differs whether onreadystatechange callback is triggered.
[XHR may be out of scope here, I'm just mentioning it for
completeness.]
Best regards
Mike Wilson
Received on Wednesday, 14 May 2008 02:42:51 UTC