On 29/01/2008, Xavier Vidal Piera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Yes, technically it's not a critical thing, but IMHO showing a popup "The > page you're trying to see contains POSTDATA..." is a technical message and > should not appear to the user, who is not interested to know about this tech > things. For us is something clear and we know how to manage it but there are > people who doesn't know what the word POST stands for. The user doesn't know > either if clicking again will be harmful for his data or not, so avoiding > these kind of decisions it's better for the user experience. > > It sounds a bit perfectionist, but as i don't want to show any thrown > exception from the application, i don't want to show popups like these > either. > > Thanks for your comments ;)
While I agree that this practice is user-unfriendly, I see it as a problem of the browser. In fact, I recall reading plans for Firefox to remove that dialog (which I take it means automatically reloading it, but a re-wording would already be a huge improvement). Best, -- Vincent
