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Dialogs

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Problem statement

There's no markup or API for dialog boxes, tool palettes, hovering tooltips, the contents of popup widgets, and the like.

Real world examples today

Dialogs

Tooltips

  • The tooltips in the table of [1] are interesting because they are currently <div>s and force the parent to be a TD rather than a TH since TH is inline only, even though the visible content is really just phrasing content.

Lightboxes