On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Sreeram Ramachandran <sree...@chromium.org
> wrote:
>
> I did see a couple of confirm() calls in beforeunload. The examples I
> found were also annoying ("Are you sure you want to leave? Yes/No"),
> but I can imagine those could instead have been more useful ("Do you
> want to save some state? Yes/No"). I think if there are indeed such
> uses, they can be transformed into something that returns a non-NULL
> value in beforeunload and then saves state.
>
"Do you want to save some state? Yes/No" seems like a valid use of confirm
because there are 3 possible actions users can take:
1. Don't leave
2. Save state and leave
3. Discard state and leave
If the site just used beforeunload, it can't distinguish 2 and 3.
- Ryosuke
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