- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:57:45 -0800
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > >> > 2. if we are still keeping them, can we disable them in >> > onbeforeunload/onunload[/onhide] etc. Many sites add extra dialogs in >> > those events to confuse users, so that they can trap users for little >> > longer. >> >> That's not a bad idea. I recommend approaching the browser vendors to see >> if they are willing to implement it; if they do, then updating the spec >> accordingly would be a no-brainer. > > > Isn't this important for the "you're trying to navigate away from gmail with > an open draft; abandon changes y/n?" case? No, that's handled by having the onbeforeunload handler return a string containing the query you want to show. ~TJ
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