In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jesse McDaniel wrote: > As of version 1.3 window.open passing "modal" no longer opens the window > modally (nor does it raise a security exception). Supposedly it works > in signed scripts, but to many developers that is useless. This worked > fine in 1.2.1 and below so has been relieve uppon for many released > versions of web bassed applications. If you need modal dialogs please > help me convince the Mozilla security team to change the approach taken > ASAP. For example one solution might be to make the window document > modal not window modal. Many developers need this changed back to > something like 1.2.1. PLEASE help by reviewing & voting for: > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197351
not going to happen with that bug. these dialogs were not even window modal, they were app modal in several ways, mean that a couple of lines of script on a page could kill all windows, mail/news, chatzilla etc, etc, which is not acceptable. if that decision is going to be changed, then the modality would need to be fixed, as you suggest. there are a bunch of bugs on that issue, which have been around for years, and nobody has come up with a way of fixing them... take a look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22049#c29 and the bugs linked from there... in particular, your suggestion is bug 59314, but as people point out, window managers don't understand the concept of "document modal", so that would be pretty much impossible to implement. -- Michael
