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Popover API
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Popover API, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Right-button mouseup triggers light dismiss, so context menu closes as soon as it opens2025-08-08
- Alert popovers end up behind confirmation dialogs, so clicking them does nothing or closes the dialog2025-08-08
- Unusable for people not navigating with a mouse, such as keyboard and screen reader users2024-05-10
- Popover interrupts reading people's posts, so users close the page2023-12-11
- Accessibility attribute must be set with JavaScript, which is an extra step2023-05-24
- Dragging into a popover kills the gesture as it presents, so users can't drag directly to an item2019-01-05