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And surely this new API will not be abused. Right?

• lolinder 2y ago
  At this point in the web's development the better question is: will this allow our abusers to do things that weren't possible before or in ways that are less blockable than before? I think the answer is pretty clearly no to both questions, but it will allow us to simplify a lot of our code that was designed to make actually-useful popovers.
• hhreefgguu 2y ago
  It seems like the only context in which it could be abused would be if you have JS disabled but this still works? (Because of course you can do this with JS). As CSS becomes more powerful it seems like being able to disable these powerful features, while still retaining the “document styling” features, will be important.
• jwells89 2y ago
  It might be, but at least the offending site can be taken care of by closing a single tab. The part that sucked about old style popups is that they leaked into and on occasion would hijack (in the case of popup chains) your OS’ windowing system and at best make a mess of things or at worst turn your computer unusable.
• notatoad 2y ago
  it doesn't allow developers to do anything they can't already do. it does make those elements easier for adblockers to remove though, by implementing the functionality in a standard way that constrains all the related logic into one easily removable element.
• deleted 2y ago
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