At 02:55 AM 2/20/00 -0500, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
>> If you mark it,
>> "click here to confirm", then they click here to confirm. Why
>> make a user who can barely do one thing do two things? re we
>> totally addiced to "Are you Sure?" boxes for everything?
>
>You just need to make a form submit button say "Click here to confirm"
>instead of a link, that's all.
All I need to do is to mark it "Click here to confirm" for them to know
that this will do something. Why should a user care whether it is a get or
a put mode URL? Again, I think it is a silly addiction to "are you sure"
popups that cause people to want to put up these pushbuttons. This just
contributes to making computers harder to use.
I can't send them a pushbutton in e-mail and still make it widely
compatible. I want this to work for people whose MUAs can do nothing but
simply call a browser with a get mode URL. I want this to work for someone
who has to start the browser and cut/paste it in.
>> We are not writing mail for a browser here. I send my confirm
>> URL's, tokens and all, as regular URLs, which default to get
>> whe clicked on. If you click on a URL with a bunch of
>> operands, why would you expect it not to do something?
>
>Users shouldn't be expected to inspect the contents of URLs to
>try to figure out what will happen before they click on them.
>
>That's (one of) the reasons for the distinction between GET and
>POST: the user interface is different, so users can get used to
>the fact that POSTing something has side effects (like removing
>them from a list), while simply following a hypertext link
>doesn't.
It is a silly distinction, sorry. If you label something, users should be
expected to read.
"Are you sure" popups should be saved for important events, and not used
for easily reversible, non-destructive events. We have a large number of
people who are conditioned to click "yes" on every one of these without
reading them because they are so overused.
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