[webkit-dev] The case for disallowing alerts in unload, redux

[Sreeram Ramachandran]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 15:36, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>> 27.06.2011, в 14:03, Darin Fisher написал(а):
>> > I think we can make this behavior a Setting, and then certainly each
>> > embedder of WebKit
>> > can decide how prominently to surface this option.  For Chrome, we'll
>> > probably either make
>> > it be a command line flag, or we would just leave out the option
>> > entirely.
>>
>> Perhaps I'd be less unhappy about this change if the flag were off in
>> layout tests, so that we didn't have to change them all to remove alert() in
>> unload.
>
> That patch was scrapped. Now alerts during unload handlers will just log to
> the console, so the alerts can be left in. The expected results for the
> tests will change a bit though since the message being logged is different.

Right. In addition, the proposed patch only enables this for chromium,
so other ports are not affected. Can I get a review?
http://webkit.org/b/56397