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Re: Shutting script down when leaving page

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Christoph Michael Becker wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Andrew Poulos wrote:
>>> On 27/01/2014 2:25 PM, Xox wrote:
>>>> It seems reasonable to assume that the script would stop running.
>> 
>> No, it is not.  Window and document are separate entities.
>>
>>>> But is this in fact known to be the case across all contemporary
>>>> browsers?
>> 
>> No, it never was.
> 
> According to the HTML5 CR "Unloading documents"[1]:
> 
> | If the Document's salvageable state is false, empty the Document's
> | Window's list of active timers.

Thanks, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for conforming implementations of 
HTML5.
 
> Apparently you claim that there are or have been browsers that didn't do
> this.

There have been some, at least.

> Can you name them or otherwise elaborate a bit on the issue, please.
                                                                     ^
Well, BTST (and no, I cannot remember exactly¹), so I prefer to call 
window.clearInterval()/clearTimeout onunload at the latest.  Better safe 
than sorry.
 
> [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/browsers.html#unload-a-document>

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   about 16 years of ECMAScript-based Web programming in total now.
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Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-27 03:25 +0000
  Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-27 18:08 +1100
    Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-01-27 10:23 +0100
    Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-27 11:21 +0100
      Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-27 10:41 +0000
        Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-27 19:43 +0000
          Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-01-27 20:53 +0100
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-27 20:52 +0000
          Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 01:20 +0100
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 01:24 +0100
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-01-27 18:44 -0800
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-28 05:03 +0000
              Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 11:33 +0100
                Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-28 19:40 +0000
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-01-28 09:31 +0100
      Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-01-27 21:37 +0100
        Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 00:10 +0100
          Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-01-28 00:54 +0100

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