Is "close window" expected to wait for the window to be closed?
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Description
https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/#close-window calls HTML's https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#close-a-browsing-context, but as far as I'm aware that doesn't synchronously close the window. I think in most implementations by the point that it returns it always will have closed the window, but the spec doesn't seem to guarantee this?
(Note that for HTTP-only sessions before unload is never fired, thus I believe it should always eventually succeed.)
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Research direction
Start with the WebDriver close-window section and the linked HTML “close a browsing context” definition. Check whether the referenced algorithm specifies synchronous completion, including the HTTP-only session note and before-unload behavior. Done means the specification’s expected waiting behavior is explicitly resolved.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- api, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 35/100