1206798 - clicking on notification with target '_blank' should open new tab in foreground

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: DOM, defect)

Description

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

1. goto http://people.mozilla.org/~ewong2/push-notification-test/
2. click on 'pop notification' button
2b. click on 'allow for session' in permissions door hanger.
3. click on notification banner

actual: mozilla.org opens in a new tab in background

expected: should open in foreground

Comment 1

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

when i call window.open('http://mozilla.org', '_blank'); in a function, it opens a new tab and it's in focus (foreground)

Comment 2

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

this is fixed if you add this:

  notification.onclick = function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    window.open('http://www.mozilla.org', '_blank');
  }

Comment 3

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

This is defined in the spec at https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/#activating-a-notification :

"If the event’s canceled flag is unset, the user agent should bring the notification’s related browsing context’s viewport into focus."

We should make sure this default behaviour is documented clearly on MDN and make sure examples use preventDefault when this isn't desired.

Comment 4

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

I have added an example to the Notification.onclick doc, which illustrates this very point:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification/onclick#Examples

Let me know if this looks ok. Thanks!