[webkit-dev] Changes to window.focus/window.blur controlled by a setting?

[Andrew Wilson]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

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> On May 21, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Andrew Wilson <atwilson at google.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Jochen Eisinger <jochen at chromium.org>wrote:
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>> Hey,
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>> in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86969 I'm changing
>> window.focus and window.blur to match Firefox's behavior: window.blur does
>> nothing, and window.focus only works when invoked from the window that
>> actually opened the former.
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>> The goal is to thwart so-called pop unders.
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> The new behavior you describe will break notifications, since many pages
> will want to bring themselves to the front when someone clicks on their
> notification,
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> Not necessarily for or against the change, but we could (and probably
> should) make notifications do this automatically. Is there any case where
> clicking a notifiicatin should not bring the relevant page to the front?
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Yes. For example, in gmail, if you click on an email notification, we open
a new window and display that email. We don't want to bring the parent to
the front in that case.


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>  - Maciej
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