[webkit-dev] Back/forward cache for pages with unload handlers

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Wed Sep 9 19:26:14 PDT 2009


On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Brady Eidson wrote:

>
> On Sep 9, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 9, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Brady Eidson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> -Many are designed to do the same work in the pagehide handler  
>>> under Firefox.
>>
>> Does Firefox apply back/forward caching to pages with an "unload"  
>> listener?
>
> No.
>
> My proposed experiment would definitely cause our behavior to  
> diverge from theirs.

I think it's worth a try anyway. That way we'll find out if it causes  
problems on real sites, or not. We should let nightly users know that  
they should be on the lookout for such issues.

Regards,
Maciej



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