[whatwg] prompts, alerts and showModalDialog during beforeunload/unload events from João Eiras on 2010-02-12 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from February 2010)

From: João Eiras <joaoe@opera.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:22:31 +0100
Message-ID: <op.u7zyftq12q99of@coruscant>

>> Though I'm not sure what exactly Ojan is proposing we forbid?
>
> I think his suggestion is to forbid all of window.prompt, window.alert,  
> and window.showModalDialog. Persumably window.confirm as well.
>

Exactly. But we don't need a spec to tell that. It's 100% user agent  
feature, so you're free to have better or worse UI. Same could be said  
when the user right-clicks.

Received on Thursday, 11 February 2010 20:22:31 UTC