I'm fond of the notion of a .swf to handle this sort of thing myself.
You might have to use the Eolas workaround hack for right now to make it
work properly in IE although I heard that's supposed to end soon. I say
swf because it seems like you might be able to get the functionality
irrespective of JavaScript working on their browser - that's one bonus -
another bonus is I think it gives you an opportunity to create a more
graceful message than the standard javascript alert dialog.
My inclination at least for starters is to provide a much more friendly
sound! The default alert sound in the browser is rather harsh and so I
try when possible to avoid making people listen to it. With the .swf you
can provide something that will produce a more positive response,
possibly even a recorded voice message like AOL's old "you've got mail"
sound if you want to go that route. And then I'd just make the visual
portion of the flash movie transparent until there's an alert and then
when there's an alert display the short-title of the alert and let them
click it if they need more info.
I think all of this can technically also be done in JavaScript, though
my gut says Flash... I just can't quantify any specific reason for it
other than that I believe it will work without JavaScript enabled
(unless you need the Eolas hack for now).
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isn't it time for a change?
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