On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Loïc Bistuer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Feb 25, 2015, at 09:07, Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I have an operating system with a graphical user interface. The > developers of that operating system spent an immense amount of time > developing it, polishing it, making it behave in predictable ways, getting > keyboard accessibility sorted out, and so on. The idea of a CSS+HTML+JS > implementation of UI features that badly implement half of the behavior > provided natively by the OS - and the idea that this implementation is > somehow *preferable* to native UI elements - absolutely *boggles* my mind. > > While I agree on desktop OS, I find responsive HTML modals much more > usable on mobile. > > Weird - I've found the exact opposite, especially if you're talking about a site that doesn't have a mobile-optimised website. I've given up counting the number of websites that have popups that are larger than the screen size of the mobile device... and then helpfully keep the modal window centred on the screen so that the dismiss button is off the screen. That said, HTML modals vs popups is hardly the biggest issue we have when > it comes to usability on mobile platforms, which isn't surprising > considering the admin look & feel was invented way before mobile was a > thing. > Very much agreed on this point. Russ %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAJxq848YtSe9QC2JnPD8OVYncfmQ38N7SSHX2sfcnDRtfLuhug%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
