Is 'Use pagehide as a fallback' clause still needed?
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Description
### MDN URL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/sendBeacon
### What specific section or headline is this issue about?
Use pagehide as a fallback
### What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
All modern browsers now implement the `visibilitychange` function, so this information is absolutely out of date.
### What did you expect to see?
This section to be removed.
### Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?
_No response_
### Do you have anything more you want to share?
_No response_
### MDN metadata
Page report details
* Folder: `en-us/web/api/navigator/sendbeacon`
* MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/sendBeacon
* GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/navigator/sendbeacon/index.md
* Last commit: https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/e3b1390089160b88a74b2bed5445d9cf7cb7e436
* Document last modified: 2026-04-09T14:37:05.000Z
Contributor guide
Research direction
Open files/en-us/web/api/navigator/sendbeacon/index.md and locate the “Use pagehide as a fallback” section. Check the current visibilitychange and pagehide guidance against browser support information, then remove the outdated section if confirmed; done means the page no longer presents this fallback as necessary.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 82/100