User prompt section contains subjective text that seems unnecessary and condescending
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Description
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.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked User Prompts section of the WebDriver specification and review the quoted language in the context of the beforeUnload use case described here. Determine the intended wording change through the specification discussion; done means the concern has a clear, agreed resolution in the relevant section.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100