On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:03:58PM -0400, Ivan Krsti�? wrote: > On Jul 7, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > > Is that good enough? I think it would work fine for paranoid > > security geeks, > > but what about school children? > > It's good enough because the purpose of the dialog is not to protect, > but to inform.
I respectfully disagree that the dialog/notification can achieve that goal. We're going to have to make the dialog a lot different than the current one (which is great for what it does, I think[1]) for users to distinguish between them. And there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that many people think users don't read these types of dialog boxes[2,3], as the GP and one other have already asserted. I don't know of any usability studies to the contrary in this area. I don't have anything better to suggest, though. You've (I think) rejected making a distinction based on local/non-local URLs, which is the first thought that comes to mind. Is there nothing better than asking the user "do you really understand what you're about to do with this link"? > -- > Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org Martin 1. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004486.html 2. http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/01/54734.aspx 3. http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/archive/003362.html
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