Thread:452/@comment-11733175-20140526224232/@comment-452-20140526231332

While the preview is loading, the close button is disabled. It becomes enabled once the preview loads.

If the server doesn't respond, for whatever reason, the close button remains disabled. (I usually just open the inspector and delete the modal)

So, on a fast internet connection, when nothing goes wrong, there's no issue. But I believe that gracefully handling when things go wrong is important.

You can replicate this by:
 * Throttling your internet connection. (I sometimes encounter the problem while downloading, but using a program like netlimiter works just as well.)
 * Using a slow public wifi hotspot.
 * Waiting for a server outage (which happened a few hours ago, and is why I added the style today - I already applied the fix to the wiki I usually edit.)

The way to fix it is to not set it to be disabled by default. While it makes sense for the publish button to be disabled until loaded, there's no reason to disable a close button.

The new image lightbox has the same issue, which I first reported in March 2013 - I didn't report it sooner because I assumed that since it was new, the image lightbox was still being developed, but there doesn't appear to have been any updates since then. :(