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> confirming changes ...how can I confirm a set of changes if the popup is blocking my view of said changes?
by DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> confirming changes
...how can I confirm a set of changes if the popup is blocking my view of said changes?
- _0x168 2y agoThe popup can summarize the changes. For instance, "are you sure you want to delete X?"
- stevage 2y agoAnd yet, that pattern has worked just fine for decades.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y agoOn a Windows or macOS desktop, the OS-provided MessageBox() can be freely moved around the screen - but that's not how in-web-page modals tend to work.
- stevage 2y agoI don't find I have the problem you describe, because at worst you can generally abort the save or whatever and verify then redo it. The one that bugs me is online order forms that don't give you all your critical details like dates, and exactly what you are paying for, on one screen where you finally commit.
- rat9988 2y agoThen don't confirm them if you aren't sure you wanted to confirm. The dialog is here to alert that you did click on confirm and it seems to me you weren't ready yet, so it did its job.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoFamous example of how badly this works is Jira. Want to look something up in another ticket? Bad luck! You need to close that ticket, then open the other one, then memorize or copy the info you need, then close that ticket, then open the original one again. At that point you are better off circumventing the whole shit UI and clone the browser tab. Which ultimately leads to having a dozen browser tabs open that one needs to cleanup later. Add to that the general incredible sluggishness of Jira, and the massive amount of things loaded when you load any of its pages, and you have a recipe for the disaster that thing is.