[webkit-dev] Javascript window.open handling in GTK

Gustavo Noronha Silva gns at gnome.org
Fri Oct 3 02:23:42 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 15:18 -0700, Weber, Bernd wrote:
> Playing around with the code for a while now I found that, at least in
> the GTK implementation, window.open(), close(), etc is not
> implemented. Can anyone explain to me why this is not implemented?
> Maybe because of security concerns? Wouldn’t it be better to have a
> setting defined that restricts this feature instead of not
> implementing it at all?!

I think mostly because code has not been written or has not been
reviewed/commited yet. I think what you are trying to do will probably
be helped by these:

	https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19130
	https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16401

See you,

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns at gnome.org>
GNOME contributor: http://www.gnome.org/



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