26437 – Consider removing showModalDialog

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Bug 26437 - Consider removing showModalDialog

Summary: Consider removing showModalDialog

Status:	RESOLVED MOVED

Alias:	None

Product:	WHATWG
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	HTML (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 normal
Target Milestone:	Needs Impl Interest
Assignee:	Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact:	contributor

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Reported:	2014-07-26 09:39 UTC by Ms2ger
Modified:	2015-12-15 16:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Description Ms2ger 2014-07-26 09:39:03 UTC

See

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/xh9fPX0ijqk/ixHZCOH6GLgJ
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=345831
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=981796
http://dev.opera.com/blog/showmodaldialog/

(and I need something to point to in a test).

Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-07-28 22:21:49 UTC

I'm all for it...

I know Chrome/Opera and Firefox are thinking of doing this. How about IE and Safari?

Comment 2 Chris Rebert 2015-09-01 10:42:35 UTC

IE/Edge currently lists its status as Deprecated:
https://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/showmodaldialog/

Comment 3 Domenic Denicola 2015-09-01 15:19:32 UTC

It's actually removed entirely from Edge if you test. And I tested on mobile Safari showing it doesn't work there. Firefox (and maybe desktop Safari?) is the only holdout.

Comment 4 Simon Pieters 2015-12-03 09:04:40 UTC

(In reply to Domenic Denicola from comment #3)
> (and maybe desktop Safari?)

Desktop Safari supports it.

Comment 5 Anne 2015-12-15 16:37:57 UTC

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/374