Re: Mozilla tabs and url's

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From: Ann Barcomb
Subject: Re: Mozilla tabs and url's
Date: 19:30 on 06 Aug 2005
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:

>> Don't tell me you like having to click away popups?
>
> I don't have to click-away *dialog boxes*. I can get rid of them with a 
> keystroke, they're designed to go away, right away. That's one reason 
> verification dialogs are so pointless, they're too easy to accept 
> accidentally and approve whatever it is you're trying to protect the user 
> from.
> Inline errors, though, change the content of the page you're viewing. They 
> hide the very page you need to look at to deal with whatever caused the 
> problem.
I don't see how this is a problem with the error dialog generated
when the server couldn't be reached (the only error dialog I have
seen with Safari, and indeed the only one I'm talking about).

I don't expect Safari to give me an error if I was able to connect
to the server and get an error from it.  In that case, I should
certainly see the page error.

But if the server can't be reached, there's no page to view, hence no
error to be concealed.


...and it would be nice if the dialog boxes would go away, right away.
But if I want to just close the tab with the error, clicking on the 
x to destroy the tab forces me to first get rid of the dialog.  So
for you they may go away quickly, but I think there are quite a few
extra steps between quickly and the 'instantly' that I want :).

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