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Re:Show HN: The Most Explosive Modal on the Web by thewavelength on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:08PM (#14187751)
The opening of the modal is being pushed to Browser history. This confuses me as I don't expect modals to be in the history.

Is this caused the way it is achieved with CSS only or is this actually wanted?

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Re:Show HN: The Most Explosive Modal on the Web by jessekorzan on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:14PM (#14187828)
Just meant to be simple for prototype purposes... And I agree that typically you wouldn't want a UI event like a modal to be part of the history().
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Re:Show HN: The Most Explosive Modal on the Web by moron4hire on Monday April 24, 2017 @08:37PM (#14189815)
First of all, modals create a bad user experience. But if you're going to use them, users on Android expect to be able to use the back button to cancel out of things.
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Re:Show HN: The Most Explosive Modal on the Web by jessekorzan on Monday April 24, 2017 @11:46PM (#14190598)
Yes but... This modal explodes. Which, in most cases with design patterns, should only be used when appropriate. Right tool for the right job.
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