On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Sreeram Ramachandran >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> A confirm() can't actually do the first option ("Don't leave"). I >>> believe there's nothing a page can do to prevent the navigation once >>> it is in unload. The only way it can prevent it is by installing a >>> beforeunload and returning a string. >> >> Right. So a web page can first ask whether a user wants to save states or >> not. Then ask whether a user really wants to leave a page or not using >> beforeunload. > > To further clarify, it doesn't even have to use beforeunload. The important > thing is that if we disallow confirm in beforeunload, unload, etc... then > web apps will have no way of asking a user if he/she wants to save states.
Why can't the app just return a string from the beforeunload handler? That's the usual way of handling this situation. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
