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Fixed after dialog was rapidly pushed into production across all browsers.

- Argued that dialog should be removed: 2018

- Tried to force-remove confirm/prompt: mid-2021

- Dialog rushed into all browsers: March 8-14, 2022.

- The linked proposal for a fix: March 04, 2022

- Request for position on standard: Jan 18, 2023

- The proposal merged into the standard: Jan 26, 2023

- Implemented in browsers: ?? (Webkit is possibly July 2024: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250795)

"Actually"

Dialog was literally rushed into all browsers without bothering to fix the issues that plagued it for a decade. Some of them were fixed post-factum because now you couldn't ignore these issues.