Warning before leaving page
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:37 pmIts a users right to decide to leave a webpage, but some days there just isn't enough coffee to keep mistakes from happening. I've caught myself a few times navigating my Subsonic Tab playing music away to my homepage or something accidental such as pressing a hotkey that took me off the current page. I suggest implementing a javascript (client side) method to ask the user if he/she wishes to leave the page before navigating away. This will prevent interruption of song play.
A quick and dirty how to can be seen here, http://help.dottoro.com/ljhtbtum.php
and a test here, http://jsfiddle.net/AlienWebguy/4fNCh/
Note not all browsers support onbeforeunload either in HTML or in Javascript. Opera for example doesn't support any of that particular event.
I understand the ethics conversation behind onbeforeunload in the general web perspective, but this is for a dedicated app that the user is in charge of. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/to ... ?id=286462
A quick and dirty how to can be seen here, http://help.dottoro.com/ljhtbtum.php
and a test here, http://jsfiddle.net/AlienWebguy/4fNCh/
Note not all browsers support onbeforeunload either in HTML or in Javascript. Opera for example doesn't support any of that particular event.
I understand the ethics conversation behind onbeforeunload in the general web perspective, but this is for a dedicated app that the user is in charge of. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/to ... ?id=286462
