On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:18 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > For dial-up users the obvious thing to do is ask them to connect to the > Internet. They should probably only be automatically asked once per > session and be expecated to manually request a connection otherwise.
There are also cases where failing (more or less) silently is preferable too, of course... I'm sure we've all been annoyed by mail programs that pop up alerts during their periodic background checks to tell us that they can't connect to the mail server, when we really couldn't care less. All depends on the context, as you say. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
