On: Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page

[WillPostForFood]

A new tab would be highly disruptive, if I just wanted a glimpse over the content.

I know how to close a tab, be it via keyboard shortcut or mouse click. I know how to resize it. I know how to print it. When content I want to glimpse at opens in a modal, I know none of that. Even if it is well designed, different sites will have different engagement paradigms.

My current pet peeve with modals is when I try to select text with the mouse, and drag past the edge of the modal, it closes.

[ablob → WillPostForFood]

This is why I encouraged the choice of configuration, as can bee seen in the paragraphs below your citation. The intended message of my comment is that different people prefer different things.

Modal windows and how they interact with the user is obviously something that should be standardized, but that is a different discussion.

[usrbinbash → ablob]

> Modal windows and how they interact with the user is obviously something that should be standardized,

It already is. It's called tabs.