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by alerighi
1762 days ago
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How cares? I mean, sure if you want to do a shiny applications for consumers, you care. But 99% of the business software doesn't care and wants something that just works. I use alert, confirm and prompt a lot because it's the simpler way to notify the user, ask for confirmation or ask some input that just works, in all browsers, with vanilla JavaScript, without having to code any CSS (that I hate), or including huge frameworks. They are used extensively in all enterprise software, where you don't need to be fancy but need to produce something that works reliably. Removing them to me is a terrible idea. More terrible if there are not alternatives to these, yes there is the dialog API that is supported only by Chrome, and it's not as simple as the good old alert, prompt or confirm functions. And we know that in the enterprise world we would have to wait years to have all the browsers compatible with new APIs, there are still a ton of people that uses Internet Explorer... By the way this is a so big breaking change that to me would require a new version of HTML entirely. To the point where the browsers if they encounter a old HTML document they keep the old behavior. But they removed the DTD with HTML5 leaving just <!doctype html> that to me was a terrible idea. |
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