Thanks, Mike, for your suggestion. These are help alerts. Most pages in my app have a help button you can click to quickly get an alert that describes what’s on the page and how to use the page (text-only, with an ok button to dismiss). The backdrop and the centering and smaller window are perfect for this. Naturally, some descriptions would scroll. This use case goes perfectly with alerts, IMO. But I do get it that for complicated use cases a modal is better. It seems overkill in this case to use a modal that mimics all style features of an alert. Trying to target devices as small as the iPhone-4 - only in those cases, some of the help messages require scrolling. I guess there’s no easy way to tell if the alert text overflowed into scrolling. It’s okay, I’ll live with it, only the iPhone-4 people would notice.
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