Great - thanks Andrew. I’ve updated the page as suggested. Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills
> On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:37, Andrew Sutherland <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is right: "The mozbrowseractivitydone event is fired when something > inside the browser <iframe> triggers a web activity, and that web > activity's message is consumed by the receiving app." > > But could benefit like an addendum like: For activities where the > servicing app's activity definition in its manifest does not include > returnValue or returnValue is false, no mozbrowseractivitydone event > will be generated as of the landing of > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194525 in v2.5. > postResult and postError calls made on the activity will be ignored and > have no effect. > > This is probably misleading: "For example, if you want to share a > picture displayed inside the browser via email, the event is fired once > the email has been successfully sent via the email app." Specifically, > the email app tries to asynchronously send messages in the background > and really just consumes the activity when it wants the window manager > to foreground the calling app again. > > It might make sense to just drop that sentence and instead elaborate on > what we mean by consume: A returnValue=true activity is consumed when > postResult or postError is invoked on the activity by the servicing app. > > Hope that helps / keep up the great documentin'! > Andrew > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, at 08:55 AM, Chris Mills wrote: >> hi there, >> >> I’ve recently been updating the MDN Browser API documentation (see [0]), >> and I had a few questions tat I couldn’t easily find the answers for: >> >> 1. Does this description sound correct: >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/mozbrowseractivitydone >> ? I kinda guessed the functionality of this one. >> >> 2. Also, for mozbrowserselectionstatechanged, what values can the >> event.details.states property take? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Chris Mills >> Senior tech writer || Mozilla >> developer.mozilla.org || MDN >> [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
