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

[Andrew Wilson]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jochen Eisinger <jochen at chromium.org>wrote:

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> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:16 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.
>>>
>>> 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, and your patch prevents this. I suspect that the Firefox
>> behavior will need to change when they add support for notifications.
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>> I still think that a superior change would be to prevent applications
>> from calling window.focus() or window.blur() in the context of a user
>> gesture once they've opened a new window. This would address popunders,
>> while still allowing notifications to work.
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> The web page could just use setTimeout your restriction to work around
> this, no?
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No, because the setTimeout() callback would be executed outside the context
of a user gesture.


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> -jochen
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>>> Does any port want to have this new behavior configurable by e.g. a
>>> setting?
>>>
>>> Feel free to directly comment on the bug.
>>>
>>> best
>>> -jochen
>>>
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