Re:Sweet Alert for Bootstrap – Blends nicely with any Bootst...
by dangrossman on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @01:30PM
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Lots of people on HN develop web apps but aren't great designers, and nifty little libraries like this make our work look better than our own design skill would normally allow. I think it's that simple -- they're not being upvoted for any deep reason relating to UX best practices.
There are legitamite suggestions that blocking UI paradigms are bad, but they're very useful at times. I'm not arguing either, as I think each has their place (although I tend to avoid blocking personally if I can)
My real question is why now?