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		The_Colonel on May 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Popover API The big difference is that there are very few valid use cases for popups, but many useful ones for popovers.

marginalia_nu on May 10, 2024 [–]

Keep in mind this was a time when virtually all state was kept serverside. Basically anything you could do with a popover you could do with a popup, and there were definitely benign uses of them.

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