"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Cancel or OK?" Ick.
This is so Windows 95 it's pathetic that a major Internet property would use it in the year 2008. [Update: Elliot notes that this is not Google/Blogger's fault, that it is a limitation of Javascript. Fair enough: whoever is at fault ought to fix it.] The buttons should say "Stay here" and "Leave without saving," or something similar. As it stands now, I'm forced to read all the text, interpret which nondescript button corresponds to my desired course of action, and click—hoping I got it right.
(I first encountered this idea several years back on the site "X vs. XP," which played a major role in my decision to switch to the Mac.)
2 comments:
The thing with this dialog is it's an internet standard. Javascript allows you to display an OK/Cancel box, but not define anything else. So no browser is going to have a better version of this box until Javascript allows for it.
Is it really that hard to interpret? You're right, you should stick with Mac. :P
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