[webkit-qt] WK2/QML handling of unresponsive/crashed web process

[Jocelyn Turcotte]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:15:20AM -0300, Alexis Menard wrote:
> Apps maybe not, a Browser yes.
> 
> Here is a given scenario : Large text field where I write my blog
> post, lot of text, no auto saving of draft (very common), and then the
> WebProcess becomes unresponsive. What WebKit2 will do? reloading the
> page automatically? Sounds goods but you loose all what you typed in
> the text field...Today Safari ask you if you want to reload the page
> because the WebProcess can't respond, so you have the choice to
> cancel. Actually the popup even tell you that you can loose some data
> if you reload.
> 
> In the other hand the "i could kill it" from the Apps is not a good
> argument to expose this mechanism. I believe it is handled gracefully
> today.

That's a good use case, I guess that exposing processDidBecomeUnresponsive and processDidBecomeResponsive signals should be enough to let the user agent prompt the user for a reload.