Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] A toast UI element (#385)

"Toast" seems like the standard term for expiring non-modal notification windows on Android and Windows. On iOS and MacOS they are called "banners", or if you want to be really specific, "temporary notification banners".

I guess the intention here is to provide an in-page version of this functionality, which is why it's new stuff instead of additions to Notifications API.

I do think "toast" is a an odd jargon term that will be really clear in some communities and really confusing in others.

Another thought: why isn't this instead an addition to `<dialog>`, a `showTemporary()` (or `showToast()` or `showBanner()`) method in addition to `show()` and `showModal()`? It seems like that could be implemented on top of `show()`, `close()` and a timer, so still polyfillable, and wouldn't be semantically wrong IMO.

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