[IxDA Discuss] Confirmation dialogs - the devil himself, or a necessary evil?

[shaun bergmann]

Alan --
'Human Nature' vs 'Human Error'...
Good point.  Interesting how years and years of hearing (and
admittedly sometimes being) the apologist, my kneejerk categorization
of a user triggering an undesired result was 'Human Error'.

I'd compare it to a toddler reaching out and grabbing the cherry of
a lit cigarette in the ashtray: We certainly wouldn't blame the
blister on the baby.

Jim -- 
Nice! Elegant solution.  With that in mind I'm definately leaning
towards the answer being 'The Devil himself'.  I can't come up
with any other circumstances at this point that justify the prompt.

Unless, of course, we wanted to add one to the cancel button of the
countdown:
"Are you sure you want to cancel the countdown?"
yes / no / cancel / abort / restart"
Shaun


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