[Bug 10645] Add a modal attribute to html5 to indicate a modal segment of the DOM (modal dialog)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10645

--- Comment #17 from Everett Zufelt <everett@zufelt.ca> 2010-11-07 20:56:32 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > I'm curious why this isn't sufficient as a modal dialog feature:
> > 
> > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#dom-showmodaldialog
> 
> Why is window.alert() not sufficient.
> 
> 1. although the alert() message is configurable, it is not really very
> configurable.  What if I want to ask for a name, phone number, e-mail address,
> subject and comment in the dialog?
> 
> 2. What if I want users of my CMS to be able to open administrative pages as a
> modal dialog while keeping the context of the page from which they launched the
> administrative pages in the background?
> 
> 3. What if I want a modal lightbox to present multimedia?
> 
> 4. I do not believe that CSS can be applied to dialogs created by alert().
> 
> I am sure that there are many other use-cases and drawbacks to using alert. 
> This would seem to be true based on the number of UI toolkits that provide a
> modal dialog UI component.

Responded to wrong section of the spec.

Why is showmodaldialog() not sufficient.

1. Requires a new browser window.

2. Can be mistaken for a popup window (since it is a new window) see:

User agents are expected to disable this method in certain cases to avoid user
annoyance (e.g. as part of their popup blocker feature). For instance, a
user agent could require that a site be white-listed before enabling this
method, or the user agent could be configured to only allow one modal dialog
at a time.

Thanks

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Received on Sunday, 7 November 2010 20:56:34 UTC