[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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