Hi folks, I wanted to share an idea that I think could substantially improve the user experience of the various modal dialogs used in Chrome. You can see it here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dj6xpc2_0hspk5vcw For the tl;dr crowd, basically the idea is to introduce the concept of a page-modal dialog. When a page-modal dialog in onscreen, the user can't interact with the page that showed the dialog (for example scrolling, clicking links, right-clicking on the page, etc.) but can interact normally with everything else in the window -- he or she can close the tab, switch to another tab, close the window, show the Options dialog, etc. This makes the dialog modal from the point of view of a script on the page (preserving the existing semantics of functions like alert()), but avoids forcing the user to interact with the dialog before they can do anything else in the browser, thwarting DoS attacks and removing an attractive vehicle for "dialog spammers" to claim the user's attention. See the doc for more details and mockups. Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
