A> It is therefore apparent that you failed to make the change.
Hmm, works today.  Anyway,
change "[Change URL-SPECIFICATION]" to:
 "Press [Change URL-SPECIFICATION] if you have made any changes above."

A>  Having seen that the URL is unchanged it would have been wise for
A> you to go back and investigate.

As far as noticing differences, with such long urls, the user won't be
scanning for differences.

A> It will now default to "insert entry before selected one".

Or maybe some big blue "entry will go here" line sitting in the
proposed target spot.

>> By the way, of the 47 items in the box, none are especially selected,
>> meaning the whole box is selected, perhaps.

A> No, not selecting anything is very different from selecting everything.

Well, we see a box with many lines all looking the same, so users
might think that whole box is what you're talking about when you say
"selected".

That's why you need to stick a new "will go here" target line and
select it for us, or something.

A> You pressed the button where it is clearly labelled "Insert the value
A> above after the entry selected below" yet you failed to select an
A> entry below.  It tells you in the option that you chose that an entry
A> must be selected from below yet you failed to do it.

Being a infrequent user of web forms, if I don't see any specially
marked lines, then I assumed you were talking about all of them.

A> I have also made this default to selecting the first entry.

OK, all in the spirit of
http://www.useit.com/jakob/
http://www.robotwisdom.com/issues/nielsen.html

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