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

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