[sldev] Popup ordering patch

Argent Stonecutter secret.argent at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 11:19:52 PDT 2007


> The difference between the two click through issues is this - in  
> the situation Argent describes (clicking through a lot of dialogs  
> without reading them), the solution is really a social one rather  
> than a technical one, i.e. teaching people to *read* before they  
> click.

The solution (and it's an effective one) to that one is to design the  
application so that you don't need to bring up routine approval  
dialogs except in exceptional circumstances. Apple used to be good at  
this, but they seem to have lost the plot a bit in Safari. Microsoft  
is the worst offender by far, alas... which has led people to equate  
these kinds of dialogs with secure design.

I've got some ideas on addressing that one in SL too. But it's not  
really the one I'm talking about either.

What I'm talking about is simple rote repetition. Repeating the same  
physical action (clicking the mouse) over and over again in the same  
spot. Simply moving the buttons around so that destructive and/or  
irreversible actions won't get caught in the clickstream will fix  
that one.


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