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Just to play devil's advocate: why use a modal in the first place instead of just opening a new page?
by lhorie 8y ago
Just to play devil's advocate: why use a modal in the first place instead of just opening a new page?
- cuddlecake 8y agoI'd reckon it's easier to share data between parent and child, than between completely different pages.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoLess jarring to the user, creates the UX where the user knows their state is still there once they dismiss the modal, less commitment overhead, etc.
- c22 8y agoI find the opposite is true. I can't count the number of times I've accidentally closed a window or backed out of a page using a modal where the semantics were unclear or the comically tiny 'x' was hidden below mobile-Chrome's sliding address bar on a page that was too short to scroll.
- squish78 8y agoIt seems like the modal is often abused as an anti-pattern, where it's not even clear if you are still on the same page because the content is almost entirely concealed/darkened. Reddit desktop is an example. Modals with multi-page length scrolling content is just absurd
- automathematics 8y agoYou haven't seen how many tabs my wife has open. If you send her to a window, she's never getting back :)