{"id":3873,"date":"2024-09-17T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2024-09-17T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:51:51","slug":"why-does-this-have-to-be-a-modal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/why-does-this-have-to-be-a-modal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why does this have to be a modal?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not that modals are all automatically bad, it&#8217;s that, as Adrian Egger says, &#8220;modals are the crutch of the inarticulate design and developer&#8221; and they &#8220;are easily replaced with other patterns that are less jarring.&#8221; on the dedicated site for this crusade: <a href=\"https:\/\/modalzmodalzmodalz.com\/\">modalzmodalzmodalz.com<\/a>. Adrian&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianegger.com\/#what\">personal site is sweet<\/a>, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not that modals are all automatically bad, it&#8217;s that, as Adrian Egger says, &#8220;modals are the crutch of the inarticulate design and developer&#8221; and they &#8220;are easily replaced with other patterns that are less jarring.&#8221; on the dedicated site for this crusade: modalzmodalzmodalz.com. Adrian&#8217;s personal site is sweet, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,24,98,31],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-accessibility","tag-design","tag-dialog","tag-html"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-17-at-8.51.13%E2%80%AFAM.png?fit=1178%2C692&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}