> Aside from that, writing a dialog is really not that difficult.
Tell me you've never built a proper accessible dialog without telling you've never built one.
> Too many people do not understand this and try to shoehorn things into being "like on the desktop".
I can empathise with this sentiment because I've expressed it myself many times. However, that ship has sailed and the platform has not adjusted in the least.
That's about 1% of 1% of what people want to build.
> Most websites do not need more than that.
That we can agree on
> If you find yourself wanting to put dialogs on a website, consider showing information in a different way, more appropriate to the web.
dialog is literally a web standard in the web platform you so ardently advocate for. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...
> Aside from that, writing a dialog is really not that difficult.
Tell me you've never built a proper accessible dialog without telling you've never built one.
> Too many people do not understand this and try to shoehorn things into being "like on the desktop".
I can empathise with this sentiment because I've expressed it myself many times. However, that ship has sailed and the platform has not adjusted in the least.