On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <a...@webkit.org> wrote: > 26.06.2011, в 12:10, Adam Barth написал(а): >>> Interesting - this is much more than I expected , too. So, authors are >>> widely using alerts in onload, and breaking those would be bad for >>> compatibility. If this change is made, 2.3% of users will suffer every week. >> >> It would be useful to know what fraction of those users would have a >> better experience with this change. Sreeram, of the example sites >> that you've seen, how many would be improved by suppressing these >> alerts? > > > I'm not sure if historically browsers were often taking the liberty of > crippling widely used features in this way. We didn't kill marquee, for > instance. For another example, I know that a lot of users dislike animated > GIFs, and yet we haven't removed support for those. > > How far would you be willing to go in forcefully improving user experience? > We could refuse to render dark backgrounds to make text more readable, for > instance.
A counter-example, of course, is popup blocking, which did exactly that, much to users' delight. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
