Add an Infobar style warning for window resize/move

Name of Project

Add an Infobar style warning for window resize/move

Description

Many (poorly behaved) web sites attempt to move and/or resize your browser window. It is possible to stop this behaviour (cf. dom.disable_window_move_resize) but it would be nice to have an infobar that informed the user that a web page attempted to move/resize the window, and allow it or ignore it (default). This behaviour is similar to the current Pop-up Blocker already present in Firefox. NOTE: it is not clear whether such a feature would be accepted in the tree or if this would need to be done as an extension.

Leader(s)

• Tony Lai

Project Contributor(s)

• None

Project Details

09/21/2008 -

• Found two files which might have something to do with this:

dom\src\base\nsGlobalWindow.cpp
dom\src\base\nsGlobalWindow.h

I don't know how useful these files are.

• \widget\public\nsGUIEvent.h contains details on the windows_resize event
• The name of the event dealt with is called: nsSizeEvent, a class inherited from nsGUIEvent. A base event.

Project News / Updates

09/21/2008 -

• For those who have trouble viewing the source code (It IS very overwhelming at first): http://mxr.mozilla.org/

09/18/2008 -

• Starting a Project Plan. Great idea Dave!

09/14/2008 -

• Created Project page for this project. Its a good reason to keep yourself up to date on the weekly schedule!

Project Plans

09/21/2008 -

• Reading Documentation on Mozilla's developer site. There's a lot to read: here

09/18/2008 -

• First step would be to see how infobars work in Mozilla. I need to see what triggers one, how they are displayed as well as how they can be used. If they can alter the content on a page, that would be an interesting find also.
• Would be a good idea to also look up what event handlers there are.