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I have found one case where it makes sense. Say you have a modal popup with an 'editor' widget in it. If that widget then needs to popup another modal for adding a link, it makes sense. Here is a screenshot of what I'm talking about...

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s178/sh/003f6b5e-0869-44af-ab9...

This is also using the bootstrap modal solution referenced in this article. Redactor is the editor widget.

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That's a pretty good example, but why is description even a modal? It looks so content rich, seems like it deserves the full screen.

True, I could resize the modal to be a lot larger, but it hasn't been a big issue so far. I do like it in a modal because it allows me to enable/disable the Save button depending on if things change (although this doesn't work now that I've switched to Redactor since they don't support figuring out that info yet... feature request has been submitted). All of my UX does editing of form fields in a modal, for consistency, it is nice to keep things the same.

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