On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Ben Kelly wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 20, 2016, Xidorn Quan <m...@upsuper.org> wrote:

> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Mats Palmgren wrote:

> >> Hi Tim, can you describe how the modality of dialog.showModal()
> >> works?
> >> Does a web page have the power to block the user from interacting

> >> with the entire browser (all windows)? Or is it just one window?

> >> or just one tab? or something else?

> >

> > It just blocks the same document it is in (not even the tab if the

> > document is in iframe). A modal <dialog> is just another normal HTML
> > element with some special rendering (and focusing) rules.

> 

> So dialog.showModal() does not need to block script like other
> modal APIs?


Definitely not. I think this is designed to replace those blocking API.


- Xidorn
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