On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:26:49PM -0000, Alexander Konovalenko wrote: > > I see. I absolutely agree that it should be obvious for the user that > faces a run-away script that she should click Stop. Leaving the Stop > button the default one, which it is now, can help. > > For me, stop is never supposed to be green, whether it is "bad" stop I'd > like to avoid or a "good" stop I want to perform. Green means "go" in > this context, and stop is just not go. Show me where is stop, and I'll > then choose whether I want it or not, even if it's red. > > The best way to properly resolve this is to conduct a tiny usability > study. Testing with five non-programmers would be enough, as Jakob > Nielsen has shown, if you don't make some beginner's mistakes in the > process. Even showing them just colored paper prototypes is usually much > better than no user testing at all. > > If we can't think of some usable unambiguous icons for Stop and > Continue, we are better off without either one. After all, the icons are > supposed to make the text more obvious at a glance, not the opposite. > > And please don't forget about information loss issue on slower machines. > I'm not sure how likely it is to occur with real web applications, but > if it does, it will be really frustrating for the users. Really. >
Thanks for your thoughts, but its more suitable to discuss this upstream, as its a general feature that is not ubuntu specific. Read http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=555691 for info on how to lobby for a feature upstream. Thanks for your contributions, - Alexander -- Unresponsive script dialog usability problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
