javascript: making a modal dialog with jquery

Used to be, if you wanted a dialog-box sort of thing in a web application (they called them CGIs back then), you’d use trusty old window.open(). These days though, pop-ups are considered evil incarnate, and all the kids think that rolling your own dialog with AJAX and DHTML and what not is the coolest.
Which is why I tried to get one of those widgets to actually behave itself.


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