I have launched an applet on Netscape7 with Mustang-b73 on WinXP. The applet contains a button. On clicking the button, I am trying to open a native file dialog. I have set the modality type of this file dialog to DOCUMENT_MODAL and it's parent is null. As per the modality specification, the scope of blocking is empty and hence it should not block anything (should behave like modeless).

But on WinXP, the file dialog blocks the applet as well as the browser window and behaves like a Toolkit modal dialog. This is incorrect.
On SolSparc10 with Mozilla, the same dialog blocks the applet but not the browser window. I feel this is also incorrect since it should not actually block anything.

This is a long-awaited modality feature that lots of customers are looking forward to. It would be good to fix this for RC.

I have attached a java and a html file. Open the HTML file on the browser and click on 'Load Image' button. A file dialog will open up. If this file dialog blocks anything on the browser window, the bug is reproduced.