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User prompt section contains subjective text that seems unnecessary and condescending #1838

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lukeis opened this issue Sep 11, 2024 · 1 comment

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lukeis commented Sep 11, 2024

https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/#user-prompts

implementations must act as if showing an unload prompt is likely to be annoying, deceptive, or pointless.

What's up with this language in the spec?

Plenty of applications have valid use cases for beforeUnload, like to prevent users from accidentally discarding unsaved data.

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lukeis commented Sep 11, 2024

Seems to be quoting the html spc...
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#steps-to-fire-beforeunload
showing an unload prompt is unlikely to be annoying, deceptive, or pointless,

Key difference is it says unlikely not likely

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