Re: [qooxdoo-devel] artificially getting to a listener

[Derrell L. <der...@un...>]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:25, Gene Amtower <ge...@pc...> wrote:

>  Derrell,
>
> I agree that we should embrace this security measure - it protects us from
> the "other" developers.
>
> However, this touches on another post some months ago, where the IE
> security bar blocked an action and then reloaded the entire page when the
> user verified the action.  In a normal webpage scenario, this is just fine,
> but in an RIA environment, this is disastrous.  I wonder if the framework
> could provide a "check" function at load time to allow a user to "verify"
> actions for the site prior to loading and initiating the app, in order to
> avoid a later incident that reloads the entire RIA page.  An app developer
> would include this function at startup to initiate an arbitrary "trigger"
> that forces the browser to offer the acceptance option and prevent future
> dialogs.  I don't know what this function would need to execute in order to
> trigger the acceptance, but others probably have a better knowledge of what
> it would take.
>

That's a reasonable request. I'd recommend writing it up as an enhancement
bug. A script that does "something" TBD before actually loading the qooxdoo
application could likely be easily added as an option.

Derrell