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Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element by ulrischa on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:31PM (#42343363)
Why is this on the front page? It is nothing special
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Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element by rock_artist on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:55PM (#42343650)
I guess because the complete standardization is new. The page says:

> This page was last modified on Oct 29, 2024

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Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element by cantSpellSober on Friday December 06, 2024 @04:22PM (#42344601)
Which seems to simply add <dialog> to the docs for the `cancel` event

https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/d2421d25d1676cc11b01cc...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLDialogE...

(<dialog> has been around for a decade)

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Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element by ulrischa on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:05AM (#42348096)
That's what I mean
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Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element by palsecam on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:40PM (#42344170)
It doesn’t have to be brand new to be on the front page. Good ol’ or reference content is suitable too.

For instance, see this recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41967897 about the “418 I’m a teapot” HTTP status code, also linking to MDN. It was nothing new neither.

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Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element by Mystery-Machine on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:55PM (#42343651)
No idea. If it was the new `popover` attribute, I'd understand.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

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Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element by stevage on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:07PM (#42345061)
And yet it's getting plenty of discussion. I like items like that.
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