By and large browser vendors for the longest time, even today still in many respects, repeatedly ignore pleas for more elements that cover common use cases.
Even when they do arrive, they can be half baked - like dialog or details / summary - and that doesn’t help matters
How are those half-baked? No smooth transition for details/summary, maybe?
Dialog seems to work well enough with little to no javascript required:
<dialog>
<h3>Warning:</h3>
...
<button onclick='this.closest("dialog").close()'>Dismiss</button>
</dialog>
Forms have some special quirks inside of a dialog.
The biggest thing though, is for the life of me I don't understand why you can't open and close a dialog without JavaScript. There's no way to do it.
You can use popovers like this without JavaScript:
<button popovertarget="some-element" popovertargetaction="show">Open</button>
<div id="some-element" popover="auto">
<button popovertarget="some-element" popovertargetaction="hide">Close</button>
</div>
I don’t think there’s any way at present to open a `<dialog>` element specifically without JavaScript, but command/commandfor handles this and was recently added to the HTML specification:
<button type="open-dialog" target="dialogId">Open Dialog</button>
...
<dialog id="dialogId">
<button type="close-dialog">Close Dialog</button>
</dialog>
You can do this right now already:
// For opening
<button onclick='document.querySelector("#dialogId").showModal()'>Open</button>
// For closing
<button onclick='this.closest("dialog").close()'>Close</button>
> It would just make so much sense.
That way above that I propose is about as sensible as the way you propose. If there are any problems with my proposal that are solved by your proposal, I'd love to hear it.
For all practical purposes, there is no difference between the two.
I understand that the `onclick` wouldn't fire in browsers where JS is turned off, but in that case (no JS) you're going to have an awful user experience using dialogs even with builtin open/close attributes for dialogs.
I remember Opera, before it was bought, had the best support for html5 elements and date/time inputs were the best (along with almost all others). Sad to think that a leader in this area was sold off, and not to a buyer that cared about usability and the web the way Opera did.
The solution is to make html elements extensible.
With the `appearance: base-select` css rule, we now have a standardized way to extend <select> with html and css, (and we have the potential to declaratively extend intractability too with invoking commands without needing to reach for JS)
The solution would be to make Apple ship this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...