Re: [whatwg] JavaScript Hovers and Back Button

*Windows*
IE11, Chrome: Navigation buttons are blocked while modal dialog is shown.
Firefox: Navigation buttons remain usable.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Majid Valipour <majidvp@chromium.org>
wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Does 'hover' refer to modal dialog e.g., window.alert?
> That is the only way I know that you can block a user to click back button.
> Here is a simple page that does this: http://jsbin.com/fuwosaxefa
>
> That behavior is a side-effect of how a browser may decide to implement
> modal dialog which is dependent also on the OS. I tested a few browsers on
> Linux & Mac and this is what I found:
>
> *Mac*
> Firefox, Chrome, Safari: Navigation buttons are usable while modal dialog
> is shown.
> *Linux*
> Chrome: Navigation buttons are block while modal dialog is shown.
> Firefox: Navigation buttons remain usable.
> *Windows*
> ????
>
> Perhaps this is worth a non-normative note in the spec in "user-prompt"
> section [1]
>
> [1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#user-prompts
>
> Majid
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:38 AM Delfi Ramirez <delfin@segonquart.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Agree.
> >
> > May it be done within the History API spec?
> >
> > Just wondering.
> >
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> > On 2016-04-13 21:44, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
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Received on Thursday, 14 April 2016 14:45:28 UTC