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bartkappenburg commented on Introducing command And commandfor In HTML developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/Kerrick
Random aside. Their code snippet has this comment:
// popovers have light dismiss which influences our state
> "Light dismiss" means that clicking outside of a popover whose `popover` attribute is in the auto state will close the popover.[0]
Like what, say, a `<select>` does when open.
Strikes this dev as a pretty unintuitive way to phrase that. At first I thought it was "light" as in "light DOM," but I guess it's "light" as an antonym of "explicit?" Looks like there was some back and forth on this, and it was even proposed as an attribute: https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/834
[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/popover.html#popover-...
Light is the opposite of hard (ie hard close). It makes more sense (to me!) to use explicit vs implicit close? Clicking outside the popover means an implicit close.
Lies, damn lies and statistics ;-)