Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Modal window (#427)

@danyao 

> I think a critical next step to check whether Modal Window API has legs is to find some concrete use cases, whether standalone or as part of API, where this proposal is clearly better than alternative solutions. 

That sounds like a very promising avenue, and would certainly help provide context for reasoning about the security, privacy, and other UX implications.

> It seems that a likely area may be cross-origin service coordination, but more investigation is needed to clearly articulate the user problems that are being solved.

Once again, completely agree! 

> ... did you have any APIs in mind that could benefit from such a "browser tab" concept, if we flesh out the prerequisites?

Not specifically, but I think your point about cross-origin service coordination is extremely salient, and it would be worth looking for APIs covering the use case examples given in the explainer - e.g. sharing and authentication.

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