On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: >> Con: Encourages poor HI design (since these stock dialogs should almost >> never be used). >> >> That being said, I find in-page UI less objectionable than a pop-up alert, >> but in that case I'm not sure it makes sense to overload the existing API. >> It would be better to make new methods so feature testing is possible. Even >> given all that, I'm not confident of the value add over <dialog>. > > It seems like "poor HI design" is rather subjective. Some might prefer the > OS-native look-and-feel of these simple dialogs.
I think you'll have a hard time finding people who prefer that. ^_^ > Good point about feature testing. I'd be OK with > async{Alert,Confirm,Prompt} or whatever name variant we prefer. > > You don't see much value in the simplicity of having these methods be > provided by the platform? It seems like <dialog> requires much more code > to setup. Hixie provided (in another thread) an example of the code required for <dialog> that was feature-equivalent to popping a prompt. The difference is minimal. ~TJ