- From: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hallvord@hallvord.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:39:46 +0200
On 1 Jul 2005 at 11:44, Sanghyeon Seo wrote: > Concerning recent thread about modal and modeless windows, did anyone > mention showModalDialog already? > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/showmodaldialog.asp > > I believe this functionality does come in handy in some cases. > Microsoft wouldn't have implemented it if there wasn't any demand? One of the reasons why modal popup-windows are a very bad feature in a browser is that, unlike a desktop application, you don't really know what other pages you prevent the user from accessing by throwing up a modal dialog. To go with the address book example from the previous thread: I click "edit" in my fancy address book application, a modal window pops up, I want to go to the tab where my E-mail lives to copy the address I wanted to put in my address book and ... ouch, can't get to the E-mail because I use an integrated browser/mail client application and the modal dialog blocks access to all the tabs. I don't think showModalDialog should be in WHAT's spec. I think current DHTML/AJAX tricks offer adequate solutions for modal dialogs. -- Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen http://www.hallvord.com/
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