prompt()s considered harmful; blocked in IE8

Bug #411731 reported by William Grant
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Bug Description

JavaScript prompt()s suck in general. They are modal, ugly, uncustomisable, and almost unusable in IE8 (it blocks them by default). Unfortunately, the file browser uses them extensively -- this needs to stop.

They are dying painful deaths in my new-file-browser branch.

Tags: ie8 ui
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: ie8
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in ivle:
status: In Progress → Triaged
assignee: William Grant (wgrant) → nobody
David Coles (dcoles)
Changed in ivle:
milestone: none → 1.1
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