- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:13:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Brian Blakely <anewpage.media@gmail.com>
- Cc: Matt Falkenhagen <falken@chromium.org>, "whatwg@lists.whatwg.org" <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Brian Blakely wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > I've added a rule to the spec that says that viewports have to be > > pannable so you can see all of a dialog, but I don't know how feasible > > that really is. > > I could see implementations using shadow <div>s to satisfy this It might > be beneficial to even codify kind of element as ::modal, representing a > modal layer acting as an ancestor for both the ::backdrop and <dialog>. Not really sure how this would work. Can you elaborate? > > > > > 3. When the modal dialog's height changes, either due to CSS or > > > > > content changes, the vertical position of the dialog should > > > > > change (unless the height exceeds the viewport height). > > > > > > > > That's an interesting idea, but I'm not convinced it's the right > > > > answer. Having the dialog move up and down when stuff is added at > > > > the bottom would be quite weird. You can always implement this > > > > manually from script. > > > > > > To go back to hacky and rather difficult-to-maintain JS techniques > > > for something so simple seems antithetical to the intention of > > > <dialog> to me. Modern modal implementations don't require that. > > > > My point isn't that we shouldn't offer the feature because it is > > already possible. My point is that this feature is actively bad. I'm > > saying I don't think it's good UI for the dialog position to change > > when it increases in height. > > It looks like Blink's implementation will recenter the modal when > show/showModal are called. That's per spec, yes. The suggestion above was regarding when the dialog changes size while it's already visible, I believe. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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