Re: Proposal: Add a modal element to html5 to indicate a modal segment of the DOM (modal dialog)

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:35:22 -0700, Steven Faulkner  
<faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everett,
>
> I heartily support this, as its a major and common issue for keyboard and
> assistive technology users.
>
> you wrote:
>
> "Add a modal element to html5 to indicate a modal segment of the DOM  
> (modal dialog)"
>
> any reason why it could not be a modal attribute?

I think it makes a lot more sense as an attribute - so you set something  
to be modal, and unset it on completion of whatever has to be done. I had  
a long SMS discussion with John Foliot, to tease the out reason behind my  
intuition, and it is basically that it makes for a more natural  
programming style.

cheers

chaals

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