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Have I misunderstood your source?.. But when your first line of your README says that it depends on Mootools, which is shipping at like 40kb~, doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of having a line count?

Heck, here is a modal dialog in one line.

var d = new dojo.Dialog({ title: "Pretty Awesome huh?", content: "And in just one line" }).show();

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Yeah, I did mention the line count in the title but the real point is that it doesn’t come with extra features that you’ll have to customize anyway. For example, there are a million ways to present next and previous buttons when you’re showing a group of dialogs, and if you want to use a different way than the one your library comes with, it’s going to be frustrating. I looked at five or six different libraries before deciding that just putting buttons where required in the DOM and attaching onclick handlers would be a lot easier (see the third example).

I don't really understand what's the point of using your 75 line script for creating modal dialogs instead of the one line solution mentioned by chrisacky.

If you're not trolling, can you show me how to reproduce my third example in one line?

If we want people to make their code public, to create libraries and to share their thoughts about how to make things better, we need to treat them better when they do.

I'm all for constructive criticism, but many of the posts in this thread are purely negative.

We have a responsibility to foster a community that creates, shares, and improves the state of the web for all of us. That won't happen through vicious infighting.

Sorry, it's actually dijit.Dialog({}). My bad.

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