Also random aside. I dislike this pattern for modal dialogs. Often times I will need to gather information from somewhere else, and in the process of attempting to get focus back to the dialog I've touched/tapped/clicked on something that dismisses the dialog. Very annoying.
I'm okay with modal dialogs working that way as long as people get the message: dialogs are supposed to be ephemeral. If closing the dialog loses important state, or you need information from something under the dialog in order to use the dialog, what you have shouldn't be a modal dialog. And you can tell, because in most UI frameworks that widget is just begging to be closed. Unfortunately, a lot of teams don't get the message.
I don’t say this often, but Jira got this correct. When you’re creating a new ticket, it’s done in a modal. But if you close it or click the “X”, it minimizes to the bottom of the page so that you can look at other tickets, or look up something relevant to the one you’re making.
I’ve been trained that modals are ephemeral, and I have to take a sec of “ugh I have to close this to look stuff up…wait, no I don’t” when using Jira
Just noticed this bug in Simplifi expense tracking web app. The drop down to update the category of a transaction has multiple levels (e.g. Business:Travel:Lodging) and as soon as I hover over a nested drop down the whole thing disappears.
