From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Mar 21 2005 - 21:17:27 CST
Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:
> Note: you may get one or more warnings from your browser that a script
> is running slowly. (Firefox gives the very misleading message: "Do you
> want to abort the script? [OK] [Cancel]", where OK means "No, I
> don't want to abort", and Cancel means "Yes, I do want to abort".)
Great. This is even worse than the Alan Cooper classic:
"Do you want to cancel this reservation?"
[ OK ] [ Cancel ]
(Alan Cooper is the original designer of Visual Basic and the author of
"About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design," which every
developer of UIs should read even if they don't agree with a single
thing he says.)
Every dialog box that asks a yes/no question should have Yes and No
buttons, *never* OK and Cancel.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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