Best alert ever!
By Eddie Lopez. Friday, 1. September 2006, 13:19:56
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.
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.
WIDGETIZE
Kelson # 2. September 2006, 04:52
(Seriously, that's one heck of an alert box!)
Eddie_Lopez # 2. September 2006, 05:07
kmaage # 4. September 2006, 09:03
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.
mitchman2 # 22. October 2006, 01:51