Comment 40 for bug 68040

I agree with this person. Mozilla needs this functionality to work with certain
types of websites, period.

The real problem here is that this is just not a priority to the people involved
who can actually implement the feature. It's a fact of life involving open
source software, but if the developers don't really need the feature themselves,
there is little incentive to actually spend the time writing the code. Outside
of hiring someone to write this, I'm not sure what could be done.

(In reply to comment #39)
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> It's even worse, the workaround doesn't work in IE. Where I work we make
> webpages to work on IE <period>. There is no discution. I wan't to change things
> a little and make people code stuff that work in any browser. But the client
> only uses IE, so stuff must work on IE...
>
> I really don't understand what's so wrong in making the showModalDialog work. I
> mean, if it is for security or so, why implement window.open? I can make an
> infinite loop that opens "infinite" windows until the user has no memory...
>
> There is lots of people wanting this particular feature. The feature already
> existed, so it's just a matter of enabling it again.
>
> Can someone explain why it isn't implemented? But explain me like I'm a 50 year
> old, no knowlege in computer science, just wanting to access websites that use
> the showModal for some reason (and there are lots of them).
>
> Is it hard to understand that are people that don't use mozilla because of this?
> The only thing they realize is that mozilla is broken. Trying to argument is
> impossible. It's broken 'cause it works in IE.