[webkit-dev] feature proposal: restricting window.blur/focus

[Darin Fisher]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jochen Eisinger <jochen at chromium.org>wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
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>> Matching Firefox behavior likely means that we won't have to worry about
>> breaking sites.  We may have to worry about breaking Chrome Extensions or
>> other browser-specific content.
>>
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> We could add a method to ChromeClient that would enable an embedder to
> override the restriction under certain circumstances
>

Or, perhaps something like UserGestureIndicator.  I'm not sure which is
better.
-Darin


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> -jochen
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>> -Darin
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>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Jochen Eisinger <jochen at chromium.org>wrote:
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>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Firefox restricts the use of window.blur() and window.focus() (by
>>> default). window.blur() is just doing nothing, and window.focus() only
>>> works if the caller is running in the same window.
>>>
>>> Should we implement similar rules for WebKit? The purpose of this is to
>>> make pop-unders more difficult to achieve.
>>>
>>> I think this can be implemented in such a way the the chrome
>>> implementation which is doing the actual focusing/bluring anyway has enough
>>> information to let each port control what they want to do.
>>>
>>> wdyt?
>>>
>>> -jochen
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