On 29/10/2006, at 9:21 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: > So, for the second time I've managed to zap a bunch of perfectly valid > comments in the feedback pane. > > For my next programming trick, I shall be throwing up a confirmation > box if you try and delete any ham. Watch the trunk!
IMHO confirmation boxes are almost always the wrong answer to a given usability problem. In general you almost always end up training the users to automatically click the confirmation box in addition to the destructive action. In this case though I guess that deleting ham is not a very common operation so that the training effect will be minimal. Still, are there alternatives available? I am assuming that you were deleting ham that was selected using the select all function, but the first screenful of comments were all spam? Is that right? Or is there some other scenario? An alternative in this case might be to have a Select All / Select Spam / Select Suspected Ham buttons, which would select only the appropriate comments on the current page. Perhaps also a Delete All Spam button which would operate independently of the currently- selected comments? _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
