On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <a...@webkit.org> wrote: > > 26.06.2011, в 19:37, Sreeram Ramachandran написал(а): > >>> 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. >> >> Yet, we killed the blink tag and block popups. I don't think there's a >> clear consistency here. Some things we deem to have crossed the line, >> some we don't. In this case, Ian Hickson has suggested that blocking >> alerts might be worth codifying into the standard >> (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56397#c15). > > These examples are both somewhat different from blocking alerts as proposed: > - Killing blink hardly removed any semantic meaning from pages. > - Killing pop-ups did, so browsers have super accessible preferences and/or > notifications for that. Note how Safari has the preference right in > application menu. > > Perhaps the pop-up preference should be extended (and renamed) to cover the > proposed behavior?
That sounds like an application-level decision. In any case, I agree with Darin that the next step here is to try it in a dev channel release. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev