Why is window.showModalDialog deprecated? What to use instead?

Why is window.showModalDialog deprecated? From http://tjvantoll.com/2012/05/02/showmodaldialog-what-it-is-and-why-you-should-never-use-it/, In general the idea of putting a native dialog implementation into the browser was a really good idea, but window.showModalDialog was a bad implementation that is riddled with issues and poor browser support. (…) Note that (…) [a modal dialog using showModalDialog] is a full HTML document, not a … Read more

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