[whatwg] navigation shouldn't abort if canceled
Mike Wilson
mikewse at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 3 13:22:59 PST 2011
Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> > As I wrote in my initial post, my observation was actually
> > that this is contrary to current browser behaviour.
>
> Ah, I see.
>
> So in Gecko, at least, beforeunload fires before the document
> is aborted.
Right, that matches my findings in other browsers as well.
So can we then say that
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#navigating-across-documen
ts
probably needs updating?
Is the fix as simple as moving step 9 to the position between
current step 11 and 12? (directly after beforeunload)
Best regards
Mike
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