Am 25.11.2010 17:12 schrieb Nikita Popov:
On 25.11.2010 15:55, Biju wrote:
The request I put is NOT about whether you can make it PRETTY looking
or not.
Sorry, that was how I understood point 1 your initial message.
The question is about why we are allowing website have something which
is MODAL
(ie, both window modal and tab modal
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59314)
In my opinion a no website should have that much control over user
interaction.
Well, you just said it: Bug 59314!
That alert()s, prompt()s and confirm()s are window-modal is only an
implementation issue: Some years ago browsers implemented these prompts
the most convenient way: By opening a native modal dialog. But right now
broswer vendors realize that this isn't really the best solution -
because of DOS attacks and simply because it doesn't make any sense.
And as you already mentioned: Firefox landed tab-modal dialogs a few
days ago. Opera already had them.
Opera even provided a "Stop executing scripts" checkbox in the alert()
dialog for years already, which made it my preferred browser for
debugging my scripts (handy if you have forgotten an i++ in a loop, and
placed an alert() inside).
