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Bug 26840 - Can we add a big banner here that this feature is being removed? Perhaps point to https://dev.opera.com/blog/showmodaldialog/ Getting tired from that blink-dev thread that keeps popping up.
Summary: Can we add a big banner here that this feature is being removed? Perhaps poin...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dialogs...
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Reported: 2014-09-18 07:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-09-25 17:46 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-09-18 07:37:06 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#dialogs-implemented-using-separate-documents
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dialogs-implemented-using-separate-documents
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Comment:
Can we add a big banner here that this feature is being removed? Perhaps point
to https://dev.opera.com/blog/showmodaldialog/ Getting tired from that
blink-dev thread that keeps popping up.

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2014-09-18 09:22:47 UTC 
I have updated the status annotation box (anyone can do that).
Comment 2 contributor 2014-09-24 22:27:20 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8817.
Check-in comment: deprecate showModalDialog()
https://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8816&to=8817
Comment 3 Simon Pieters 2014-09-25 09:06:14 UTC 
The status box disappeared when you changed the heading.

id="dialogs-implemented-using-separate-documents" would fix it I assume.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-09-25 17:46:50 UTC 
Oops. Fixed in editor's draft. Thanks. It'll get pushed as part of the kitchen sink change probably.