Re: Confirmation Bias

2012-05-29 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:19:33PM -0400, david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote:

The confirmation dialog, in it's entirety:
  Do you confirm this operation?  [Yes] [Cancel]

Variable-text dialogues are HAARD. Let's go shopping.

I still have a soft spot for
Do you wish to cancel this operation? [OK] [Cancel].

R


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Re: Confirmation Bias

2012-05-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* david.mackint...@xdroop.com david.mackint...@xdroop.com [2012-05-29 18:25]:
 So I'm messing around with a web interface on an Exchange hosting
 system. This particular page lists a bunch of user accounts,
 a page which is a forest of enhance, add feature, and delete
 permanently links, one for each account, all very densely packed on
 the page in tiny font so that you have to be incredibly careful to
 click on the right link for the right user account.

* Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de [2012-05-29 19:40]:
 If you have a Netscreen firewall with virtual systems on it, the
 selection menu to edit or remove one of these is a huuuge table in
 a tiiiny font, with the name of the virtual system on the very left of
 the table, and the delete! button on the very right of each row.
 So it's not easy to be sure you hit the right vsys.

It doesn’t do anything to detract from the hate, but as a suggestion to
ease the misery, since they are web interfaces, you can at least undo
the worst horrors using Stylish or Greasemonkey, and there’s Firebug or
Web Inspector to make it passable to figure out what needs unbreaking…
a well placed tr:hover style might be a great relief…

Would that it weren’t necessary in the first place – alas!