- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:05:27 +0000
- To: XForms <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
Sorry, second link should be https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30933244/how-to-detect-wake-from-sleep-in-the-browser-on-ios-android Steven On Friday 05 December 2025 12:57:49 (+01:00), Steven Pemberton wrote: > > On Friday 10 January 2025 16:38:56 (+01:00), Steven Pemberton wrote: > > > Pulling two past unresolved threads together. > > > In some applications I have built/am building, there are two events I would love to have: > > > [back] Within the app, if the user (out of habit) hits [back], rather than going back in the app, it goes to the previous page in the browser, thus losing the app. I would dearly like to catch this, to be able to do what the user thought was going to happen. > > > [wake] If the app is in a browser window, and the user goes away and does other things, and then returns, maybe days later, I would love to have an event signalling the return, so that I can check that the data is up to date for instance. > > So I did a little reading, I find these: > > How to Detect Browser Back Button event - Cross Browser > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25806608/how-to-detect-browser-back-button-event-cross-browser > > How to detect wake from sleep in the browser > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25806608/how-to-detect-browser-back-button-event-cross-browser > > > That seems to suggest that it is possible to support both proposed events. > > Steven
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