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by felsokning 763 days ago
> The Popover API provides developers with a standard, consistent, flexible mechanism for displaying popover content on top of other page content.

Paywall 2.0?
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p_l 763 days ago
I've used it to implement windows for drilling deeper into rarely used settings in a web-based HMI.

It makes for very simple design compared to using JavaScript, and provides easy layering in DOM for it (including if you want to just delete the popover :D)

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cqqxo4zV46cp 763 days ago
The lack of this API wasn’t stopping anyone from implementing a paywall.
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felsokning 763 days ago
> The lack of this API wasn’t stopping anyone from implementing a paywall.

Obviously -- that's inferred by the 2.0.

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