[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 42861] Session history should skip over JS redirects

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42861





--- Comment #12 from Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google) <fishd at chromium.org>  2010-07-27 14:41:02 PST ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> Basically, it looks like Firefox doesn't create a new history entry if
> the JS redirect happens inline, or if it's during an onload (but not
> DOMContentLoaded) handler, whereas my patch doesn't create a new history
> entry for any JS redirects until onload has finished running. As a web
> developer, I find that simpler to understand, but if Darin (or anyone
> else) think that matching the Firefox behavior is better for web compat,
> I can do that too.

Thanks for investigating this!

Interesting, so it seems that Firefox is not taking user gesture into
account.  

This may be something worth posting to whatwg about for discussion, but
I'm happy to proceed with your patch.  It seems reasonable and easy enough
for web developers to understand.

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