[whatwg] Run to completion in the face of modal dialog boxes (WAS: Storage mutex)

Jeremy Orlow jorlow at chromium.org
Fri Aug 28 10:15:26 PDT 2009


Can anyone from Firefox speak to whether this should be considered a bug
(I'm happy to file) or whether this behavior is intended?

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Aug 26, 2009, at 22:54, Darin Fisher wrote:
>
>  Firefox and IE implement window modal, which is clearly buggy, but of
>> course the world hasn't imploded.
>>
>
>
> FWIW, Firefox differs here on Windows and Mac. On Windows, you can close
> tabs in the window even when window.alert() is up, which may lead to
> "interesting" effects.
>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen at iki.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>
>
>
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