http://rullzer.com/blog/2008/11/07/javascript-warning-boxes/ an experience beyond Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://rullzer.com/blog/2008/11/07/javascript-warning-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-12840 Nx Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:34:05 +0000 http://rullzer.com/blog/?p=150#comment-12840 Sure, alert('whatever') looks bad, totally disrupting the theme of a site, but that is not the main issue, I think. Modal dialog boxes suck. Strangely against Firefox's great pop-up blocking abilities, I was interrupted in the middle of playing one silly Flash game, and it wasn't because of a crappy JS script, it was asking me to find the plug-ins for some Shockwave game. So, that's one thing they have to change. Anyway, wherever they come from, people should stop using modal boxes unless something is REALLY important and urgent and needs your full attention at the moment (I can't think of a lot of cases, though). Subtle non-intrusive notifications seem to work better than the old-fashioned way. Come on, we can dynamically update content in a gazillion ways, there must be tons of libraries and frameworks that support those. It is not necessary to resort to the stupid alert box that gets in the way. Sure, alert(‘whatever’) looks bad, totally disrupting the theme of a site, but that is not the main issue, I think.
Modal dialog boxes suck. Strangely against Firefox’s great pop-up blocking abilities, I was interrupted in the middle of playing one silly Flash game, and it wasn’t because of a crappy JS script, it was asking me to find the plug-ins for some Shockwave game. So, that’s one thing they have to change.
Anyway, wherever they come from, people should stop using modal boxes unless something is REALLY important and urgent and needs your full attention at the moment (I can’t think of a lot of cases, though). Subtle non-intrusive notifications seem to work better than the old-fashioned way. Come on, we can dynamically update content in a gazillion ways, there must be tons of libraries and frameworks that support those. It is not necessary to resort to the stupid alert box that gets in the way.

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