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This guy has a cheapskate attitude. Have him show a way to delete something without warning that I will not regret later... All he talks about is message boxe
by gm 18y ago
This guy has a cheapskate attitude. Have him show a way to delete something without warning that I will not regret later...
All he talks about is message boxes that inform you of something. And yes, I want some message boxes to make me think. I do not want to gloss over deleting all the files I just selected in my FTP client, for example.
Every time I have multiple tabs open in both IE and FireFox and I mistakenly hit the button to close the whole browser when I intended just one tab, I am grateful for the confirmation box.
- Hexstream 18y ago"Have him show a way to delete something without warning that I will not regret later..." An undo feature might be a better alternative in specific cases, if it's feasible to implement and it's not too dramatic an operation.
- gm 18y agoFor me, with deletion, in all cases it's better. Given that it's sometimes really hard to undelete (or technically impossible, as in the case of an FTP client, for example), I'd rather get the confirmation box before the deletion is done.
- jorgeortiz85 18y agoNot in all cases. GMail deletes without prompting, but adds a notification about what happened, with an 'Undo' link. You may be right about cases where it is technically impossible to undelete, but I think in most cases it's preferable to make undeleting easier than to show message boxes.