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Time is of the essence when you're hitting an escape shortcut. That's why this component blanks the page immediately, then loads the decoy, there can be no dela
by jdiff 2y ago
Time is of the essence when you're hitting an escape shortcut. That's why this component blanks the page immediately, then loads the decoy, there can be no delay even for the browser to tear down the page as it fetches the next. If you have enough time to just go and open Solitaire, you have no need for an escape button.
If you are with someone who cannot know what you are doing, who has appeared suddenly, you are quickly closing what you're doing and, yes, you will be looking at a blank page without some sort of escape mechanism like this. And if it's sudden and unexpected, you might not have been anticipating needing to pop open some decoys.
This seems like a complete misunderstanding of the situation.
- eviks 2y agoIf time is of the essence, why are you wasting it requiring 3 key presses and a site load? It take longer to do that vs a single shortcut, and is more visible (pages don't load immediately) > If you have enough time to just go and open Solitaire, you have no need for an escape button. You don't have enough time to complete that, you do that not to appear just staring at a blank screen. Activity of opening Solitaire is enough in itself. > who cannot know what you are doing, which is easier achieved when the browser is closed vs. when a browser is opened, since in the latter case it's easier to think about checking "previous" browser history > This seems like a complete misunderstanding of the situation. Indeed, so much so that this overengineered-but-underthought solution has none of the supposed benefits under the conditions people come up with to defend it
- jdiff 2y agoAt this point I have to assume that this is willful. You are continuing to ignore things that have been addressed by both myself in my last comment and the article. I invite you to read the article more deeply and look into the actual research backing these UI patterns if you are genuinely struggling to understand.
- eviks 2y agoLikewise I assume you have no arguments left, so "have to" resort to the meta "read more" and imaginary research
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- jdiff 2y agoAnd I'd advise against thinking that you that you have thought of things within 5 minutes that, inexplicably, researched, data-backed experts have missed so easily. That's a mindset that does not lend itself to intellectual growth. In almost all cases, it's not just so obvious that the experts in a field are so misguided. It's that there is complexity and depth that is not perceivable at a glance.
- eviks 2y agoThe army of "researched, data-backed experts" behind you is imaginary. So instead of repeating the same appeal to an imaginary authority I'd advise you cite a single good UI research study where a slower site-specific shortcut is better that a more common faster one when "time is of the essence" (and whatever else you think is based on "expert research")