753555 - Implement window.openDialog and window.showModalDialog on Android

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

These methods caused problems in Fennec so they were disabled in bug 725502 and bug 735237.  We should fix and re-enable them.

Modal dialogs need to block interaction with the parent tab.  Adding uiwanted to determine how we want to present them in Fennec.

Comment 1

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Modal stuff is pretty awful.  Can we just not implement these ever?

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

I don't recall what openDialog does, but showModalDialog shouldn't be too bad. Just
don't send user events to the parent window.

Comment 4

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

FWIW, showModalDialog was recently removed from Chrome, in Chrome 37. It's still available through "enterprise policies" or some such though. And we're planning on removing it from Gecko sometime past FF38.

So if it's a lot of engineering effort to make these work, it might not be worth it. But if it's easy enough then it could help web compat.

Comment 5

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Given that we fixed bug 981796 and openDialog is a chrome only API, I'm going to close this as WONTFIX. Please reopen if I'm mistaken.