On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 22:53:11 +0200 esteemed Niko Pavlicek did hold forth
thusly:
> Quote from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sorry, don't know your name):
> "Niko's quote at the beginning of this report is no doubt well-intended,
> but impractical. What about prompts from servers that will cut the
> connection if the user doesn't respond in a timely fashion?"
>
> Hey, what's the problem? In the affected window a dialog comes up, if
> this window isn't in front the taskbar starts to blink (is such a
> feature possible in mac os?) and the user, who is e.g. too busy with a
> formular, a chat or an online game, can still decide if this window is
> important enough to interrupt his current work.
> You mustn't domineer over the user, since you don't know if your prompt
> is important for _him/her_!
Yes, exactly. Do our machines serve us or do we serve our machines? Or do we
serve the people who create web sites?
Applications that grab focus away from other applications are doing a bad
thing. This should not be allowed. The only exception would be if your app
was a safety or security monitoring app. If you are running in order to be
interrupted and alerted to something important then that is its purpose.
Otherwise it shouldn't be done.
