[whatwg] JavaScript Hovers and Back Button

• From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters@domblogger.net>
• Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:44:51 -0700
• To: WHAT Working Group <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
• Message-ID: <570EA1B3.9060007@domblogger.net>

It needs to be made very clear as a web standard that no JavaScript 
action can disable UI functions such as the back button.

A very common abuse is that when pulling the mouse to hit the back 
button because you are not interested in a page, a hover comes up and 
when the hover comes up, the back button no longer works.

This is a browser UI issue but it needs to specified that browsers must 
not disable the back button in response to JavaScript. The web is enough 
of a cesspool as it is.

Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:45:19 UTC