Well see
http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/goodman_modal/goodman_modal.html#
for all the efforts web developers had to make so far to get something
close to a modal dialog.
IE takes that problem away by providing
var result = showModalDialog('url')
Mozilla/NN6 should provide a similar function to save web developers the
hassle of the the workaround (which doesn't really work) and to be
competitive with IE
Mitchell Stoltz wrote:
>
> This was intentional, as it was the only way I had available to fix a
> serious security hole (bug 56009), at least without a very large code
> change. Now that we've shipped NS6, I plan to go back and fix this in
> such a way that we may be able to give access to openDialog again. I say
> 'may' because someone here suggested that openDialog should be for
> system code only, and that Web code doesn't really need it. If you
> disagree, please let me know and give some good descriptions of why. I
> need to see if the benefit outweighs the risk.
> -Mitch
>
> Martin Honnen wrote:
>
> > Trying to open a modal dialog with
> > openDialog('url', 'windowName', 'modal=1')
> > works for me with M18 on windows while a more recent build throws a
> > security exeception with the following properties:
> >
> > code: 1000
> > result: 5440488
> > message: Security error
> > name: NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR
> >
> > Is that intentionally or a bug?
> > NN4 needed signed script to open a modal dialog but that always seemed
> > unjustified to me. IE provides
> > showModalDialog
> > for unsigned scripts
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