How to have a view page opens in modal?

I was about to suggest the following code per the code that I'm using to alter the menu path for adding a node which can be found here:

http://drupal.org/node/1422002#comment-5535750

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
  $items['node/1010']['modal'] = TRUE;
}

But I get the following 404 error through the AJAX request (attached)? This is also happening when altering the edit link like so:

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
  $items['node/1010/edit']['modal'] = TRUE;
}

I guess you need to do following:

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
  $items['node/%node/edit']['modal'] = TRUE;
}