@chriscoyier

I finally got around to writing my blog post about managing z-indexes:

https://zzzzbov.com/blag/how-to-manage-z-indexes/

@zachleat

for a moment I thought you'd somehow brought back HyperCard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard) as a web component

@sarajw it sounds like you haven't heard of the Social Contract of Tolerance: those who don't abide by the terms of the contact are not covered by it.

I like that framing because it entirely removes the paradox.

inside out because that's analogous to the top to bottom stacking that we see visually.

Ideally there'd be a way to also make borders stack visually so that we can mix colors, but that seems like a relatively unnecessary use case because we could do the color blending ourselves.

@aardrian before inert and <dialog> there was a time when the "bookends focus" technique was the most reliable way to prevent accessing content outside of modals, and the tradeoff was that it was a focus trap, so you had to make sure that the modal could be cancelled/closed to pass 2.1.2.

Not exactly a good choice as much as a least bad option given the constraints. Maybe there were even better approaches to handling modals at the time (other than not using modals).