Really nice usability, Ian :-) 2013/2/4 Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch>: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Florian Bösch wrote: >> >> There is a problem confronting applications desiring to use a variety of >> APIs such as pointerlock, fullscreen, WebRTC, local storage and so on. >> >> The problem is that each instance of attempting to use such an API leads to >> a new "Allow ..." popup the user has to click away. > > Yes, that is a problem. The solution isn't another dialog, though, the > solution is to design the APIs such that they don't need to prompt, or > that their prompt doesn't look like a security prompt. > > For example, this has a security prompt, but you don't see it: > > <input type=file> > > So does drag-and-drop, so did my design for WebRTC, so does the feature > that allows the author to start a print job. In all these cases, the user > is asked for information that looks like a request for data but is really > a request for permission. What file should the page have access to? What > printer should we print to, with what settings? What camera and microphone > should we use? Etc. > > Fullscreen doesn't need a security dialog -- just have an animation zoom > the element up to full screen, and the option to force the page back to > just being zoomed in the tab rather than in the whole screen. > Notifications don't need a permission UI, just pop the permision up within > the tab the first time and offer a UI to move the notification to the > whole screen if the user wants it. > > localStorage and other storage mechanisms can all be handled with one > asynchronous popup which just says: > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | example.org is using 4.5/5.0MB. Increase quota? |--+--------| 5GB X| > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > Geolocation can use a similar asynchronous UI: > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | (+) example.org wants to know your location. [ San Jose (IP) |V] X| > +-----------------------------------------------| Mountain View |---+ > | 1600 Plymouth | > | Use GPS | > +----------------+ > And so on. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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