Comment 2 for bug 411729
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| William Grant (wgrant) wrote Re: [Bug 411729] Re: Defaultless prompt()s default to "undefined" in IE | #2 |
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On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 01:31 +0000, David Coles wrote:
> Something better being jQuery UI? I believe that was the plan discussed
> at some point. Certainly it gives us a lot more flexibility and doesn't
> take out all open tabs with it's modal demands.
Yes, jQuery UI dialogs are the new solution.
> (And surely IE8 shouldn't be rendering null and undefined in this case?)
I suspect they want to discourage developers as much as possible from
using alert() and prompt(); they're utterly awful in IE[78].