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> Oh man, there's a <dialog> element?!

It only exist because browsers decided to remove alert/confirm/prompt. Before this it existed in a limbo plagued by so many issues that Chrome even suggested to remove the spec.

None of the issues were fixed. But within a year from Chrome's botched attempt to remove alert it suddenly shipped in all browsers.



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