>Why would the user want to bookmark or share a "modal" I think you and the author are making the same argument. I'm sure you've encountered one of those every

>Why would the user want to bookmark or share a "modal" I think you and the author are making the same argument. I'm sure you've encountered one of those everything-is-a-modal apps and thought "I sure wish I could link to this part of the app but I can't." Then you'd wish you could bookmark the modal. I use one every day. An example: to edit a user's account information, I go to the accounts interface, open the filters modal dialog and supply the criteria, and them I'm presented with a list of matches. I select one, and it opens the account information in modal dialog. None of those intermediate states are addressable in any way, so it's a real chore to ever access any resource, and I certainly can't share a link with someone else. This is a truly bad experience directly because of its abuse of modal dialogs.