Toast versus Dialog boxes: which to use when?

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Published on 2010-05-11T09:39:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 9:44 UTC
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The answer could be subjective. The answer could be intuition. And I guess the answer could be found from the traditional modal versus non-modal debates.

But in general how do you generally decide which one to go for? What are their use cases?

Thanks.

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