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

[Brady Eidson]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

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> On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Brady Eidson wrote:
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>> On Sep 9, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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>>> On Sep 9, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Brady Eidson wrote:
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>>>> -Many are designed to do the same work in the pagehide handler  
>>>> under Firefox.
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>>> Does Firefox apply back/forward caching to pages with an "unload"  
>>> listener?
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>> No.
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>> My proposed experiment would definitely cause our behavior to  
>> diverge from theirs.
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> 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.

When I flip the switch I plan to blog about it and announce in #webkit  
and hopefully alert people to give the type of feedback we need.

~Brady

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> Regards,
> Maciej
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