Ticket #4089 (new enhancement)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 9 months ago

Implement modal windows in admin

Reported by: rob1n Assigned to: anonymous
Priority: low Milestone: 2.9
Component: Administration Version:
Severity: minor Keywords: needs-patch
Cc:

Description

http://leftjustified.net/lab/wordpress/modal-windows as brought up in #2560.

I think these would be great since they not only provide UI unity (no matter what browser the user is using) and they look to be more reliable than alert() and confirm() in terms of cross-platform consistency.

Plus, they look freakin' cool.

Change History

04/05/07 14:48:06 changed by devil1591

This implementation is much slower than a standard alert() or confirm(). Furthermore, this demo is very buggy (click delete then press enter fast).

The remember checkbox is a nice idea.

04/05/07 16:00:16 changed by Sewar

I think the way Widgets plugin does this is better.

04/06/07 03:38:13 changed by rob1n

  • milestone changed from 2.2 to 2.3.

Let's target this for 2.3, and see how we can do it with jQuery (the new shiznit).

04/06/07 21:08:03 changed by chess64

  • owner changed from anonymous to chess64.
  • type changed from task to enhancement.

04/06/07 22:35:24 changed by chess64

  • owner changed from chess64 to anonymous.

I started doing this, but I think it would be better to wait until the rest of the admin interface is moved to jQuery.

(follow-up: ↓ 7 ) 04/09/07 04:16:42 changed by masquerade

Is there a fallback for screenreaders which can actually handle javascript alerts?

And this breaks my normal experience with any web application and alert()s. I think the proper buttons should be selected by default if we're going to try to do this at the very least, as well as a tab order that matches the default tab order of browsers.

-1 in its current form.

(in reply to: ↑ 6 ) 04/22/07 22:30:45 changed by rob1n

Replying to masquerade:

Is there a fallback for screenreaders which can actually handle javascript alerts?

I'm sure it could be done. But then again, I wonder if any screen readers actually can use the whole admin and all functionality... Just saying.

And this breaks my normal experience with any web application and alert()s. I think the proper buttons should be selected by default if we're going to try to do this at the very least, as well as a tab order that matches the default tab order of browsers.

This is easily done.

-1 in its current form.

So you'd be willing to consider modal windows in another form? ;)

07/21/07 16:37:09 changed by Nazgul

  • milestone changed from 2.3 (trunk) to 2.4 (future).

08/08/07 07:50:41 changed by bdude

  • priority changed from high to low.
  • severity changed from major to minor.

It definitely is cool, but not really necessary.

02/21/08 19:12:23 changed by westi

  • milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.6.

Punt to 2.6 not for now.