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From: "Patrick Horgan" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:05 AM
On 07/20/2011 09:43 AM, Stevio wrote:
Take Facebook's current implementation of photos for example. A while
back they introduced a modal viewing box for images. However, if you
click F5 to refresh Firefox, you go back to the old style viewing of
the image in it's own page. Often I do this because I prefer it, other
times I persist with their viewing box.
That's a really bad example, since that feature is user hostile, the F5
doesn't work in all browsers, and the same capabilities aren't available
in both modes, for example with the popup much of the page is blocked
and you can't click on links like home, and sometimes after browsing
with the popup you get back where you were, and sometimes you don't.
Please don't use it as an example. It makes you really wonder what
problem they were trying to solve, and you should ask yourself the
same. (Really page designers should always ask themselves that. It
avoids doing something because it's a cool feature you learned about,
but that makes things worse for users.)
To the contrary, I think you strengthen my argument by highlighting the
differences. There are advantages to both the modal and non-modal facebook
implementation of images, and different users may prefer one over the other,
which is the point I was trying to make. It is not a perfect illustration of
what I am looking to do and I did not claim it was, so please do not over
examine the comparison.
If a user choice is clear and makes sense, and is not confusing, then why
not give them that choice? My original intention was not to offer both
choices but I have come to realise as I have developed the system, that if
both options are implemented, then why not allow users to choose. They may
prefer to be working on a page that is non-modal and they can click on links
like home and have more workspace, or they may prefer to use a modal form to
quickly add a record. Let's not write off an idea just because it isn't the
way it's normally done.
Thank you for your thoughts.
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