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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

You’re absolutely right. My idea is to imply that developers should give their semantics actual thought and intention.

For your example, the X button can be called .dismiss, since typically that’s what clicking the X does; whereas cancelling something may have more meaning (e.g. cancelling a subscription, which triggers other actions aside of dismissing a modal window).