Modal in a sentence as a noun

* This should be a modal view controller.

People really need to stop using modal windows in this way if they want to keep their audience.

It's the pinnacle of modal jazz"... I think at this point, modal jazz was just getting started, not reaching it's pinnacle.

* It uses a text-input key in a modal way, when no other unmodified text keys are used modally in a web browser.

Maybe it's just me, but when you get to the point of having to put an entire page's content into a modal window, maybe it should be a separate page.

Instead, and completely unexpectedly, I get a scary modal dialog "Start using your full name on YouTube".

Modal in a sentence as an adjective

Is there anything better than just whois'ing every class A/B/C?I'm thinking of a javascript that creates a black modal dialog with a youtube video queue of startup video ads.

His point on notification clearing reminded me of the Mail app when you have connection failures: I had 5 accounts tied into it, and when the networking failed it would throw 2 modal dialogues for each account.

I bet, as a group, we'd sure do a great job of capturing what Paul thinks about what's important in life, and also we could better inform people about why they shouldn't use vi because modal editors are relics best left to the 1970s.

But I can take awesome notes on my MacBook Air!The better answer is "because it's interesting and fun and challenging and sometimes disappointing and a fantastic learning experience and you might get rich or go broke while experiencing the full, unfiltered range of human emotions and potential".It also happens to be more truthful and conforms more to the modal outcome.

Just in case anyone's unaware... it's entirely possible to vertically center elements of variable height too in pure CSS... it's just "unsemantic", because it relies on the fact that only table cells have "vertical-align:middle".But that's how I center every one of my "modal dialogs" on a site -- the whole modal dialog is inside a with position:fixed and top/bottom/left/right:0.

All right, here is how I feel about vim:If when you say vim you mean the antiquated relic, the impossibly-steep-learning-curve editor, the maddening modal machine, the most discouraging interface, which infuriates experienced users, confounds new users, and yea, literally takes the mouse from your hands and sets it on fire; if you mean the editor that takes every other editor and stomps them into the floor, shouting all the while, "I am better than you!

Modal definitions

noun

an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality

adjective

relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"

See also: average

adjective

of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode

adjective

relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; "modal auxiliary"