The user can easily and quickly close the dialog and then the main tab. Two clicks instead of one... don't be lasy :p. That's a non issue. It's much more preferable to have a native performant solution than relying on bloated js libraries, or code everything yourself.
2008/4/29, Travis Leithead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Most modality discussed so far has been about the view modality, ie > disallowing the user from accessing the original page content until > the dialog has been dismissed. Browser modality may also be about > not letting the browser unload/reload the page until a dialog has > been dismissed (eg "do you want to save before closing the window?"). > Is there any way to force a user to respond to a modal dialog > section before unloading the page? > If not, ideally a generic modality feature could be added to assist > both sections and current style HTML dialogs in achieving this > unload modality. > > > I'm not a big fan of allowing a web application to have that level of control > of a user's browsing experience (a web page preventing a user from closing a > tab, for example). The desktop paradigm is like allowing a program to prevent > the user from restarting or shutting down the OS--seems like a bad design > decision. > >
