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Originally Posted by WolfShade
I _think_ it's going to be deprecated.
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it's not going to stop alltogether (it's a good opportunity to dump your state to localStorage), it's that popups won't work from it.
according to :
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...onbeforeunload
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Since 25 May 2011, the HTML5 specification states that calls to window.showModalDialog(), window.alert(), window.confirm() and window.prompt() methods may be ignored during this event.
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browser makers realize that many sites abuse the procedure to create frustrating interaction aimed at jailing users into a domain, and they are starting to take action. stay tuned folks.