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Best alert ever!

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It's a good thing I was alerted to all of this...

Courtesy of the Air Reserve Personnel Center (in Opera)

My sarcasm aside, at least I should mention the obvious- the customer or end user should never see any error message that they can't do anything about or understand let alone an entire screen full of caught exceptions and other misc. programmatic errors.

Usable Quotes: Paradox of choiceZoom: 0%, Accessibility gone awry

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Kelson VibberKelson Saturday, September 2, 2006 4:52:28 AM

And to top it all off, nothing happens when I type "mismatch" -- what's up with this thing?

(Seriously, that's one heck of an alert box!)

Eddie LopezEddie_Lopez Saturday, September 2, 2006 5:07:24 AM

I also just noticed the "i" icon Opera is using... it has that version 7 feel to it.

Kenneth Maagekmaage Monday, September 4, 2006 9:03:27 AM

And a final note from someone who works here...

The worst issue is that the box is allowed to grow past the bounds of the screen, making the [OK] button, [Help], [Cancel] ... all completely inaccessible.

A little like my recent attempts at customizing font sizes in Opera, in relation to Accessibility projects we're working on. Usability principle: The user owns the interface. They control screen sizes, font sizes, colors. Your controls must always respect these settings and do intelligent things based on how the user chooses to arrange things.

In this case, the error message box should have a height of, say, "50% of screen height" rather than "as big as needed to contain the content" as it seems to be doing here.

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:51:55 AM

This one ends up in the error console now I hope :-)

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