Popovers
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Here is what I know about popovers. Most of popovers are avoidable Or, to put it strongly, popover is the most stupid thing you can do ( in Russian, use browser translation ). Really, putting content into a popover doesn’t require you to think how to put it on the screen. So, with some effort, most of the content could either become their own pages or put into existing pages. I have to mention dickovers here. Surely if you’re making them you know what you’re doing and it has nothing to do with good UX. This part reads as a disclaimer but really the first thing I would do befo
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