[whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> FWIW, chromium is planning on experimenting with disallowing modal dialogs
> during the beforeunload/unload events.
> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=68780
>

That sounds fairly unpleasant for users of pages which give "are you sure
you want to leave this page and lose your data?" warnings.

Rob
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