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I give you that its not a verbose or complicated hack. but I still would say that a hidden checkbox acting as the middle man for modals etc is pretty hacky :).
by cannedslime 8y ago
I give you that its not a verbose or complicated hack. but I still would say that a hidden checkbox acting as the middle man for modals etc is pretty hacky :). A hack doesn't need to be complicated, most times its not. But after all I can't imagine anyone thinking about this as a feature when they implemented checkbox inputs back in the days.
- winduptoy 8y agoAuthor here. I agree that it's a hack and I can't say that I like it. Blame the W3C and browser vendors for providing incomplete/barely functional standards like <dialog>.