Timeline for Can we have click-to-close back, please?
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| Feb 27, 2013 at 2:23 | history | bounty ended | TLama | ||
| Feb 26, 2013 at 9:59 | vote | accept | Lightness Races in Orbit | ||
| Feb 25, 2013 at 15:42 | comment | added | Jeremy T StaffMod | Sorry for the frustration on these error messages. I assure you it is not my intention to make things harder for our core users. I wanted to make sure we took the time to think through any more changes before they went out, and it looks like there's no harm done if we make all of the messages closable by clicking inside or on the X. Escape will still work and the non-action-requesting errors and messages will auto close, as before. | |
| Feb 24, 2013 at 14:49 | comment | added | Arjan | @tchrist, Esc does work; it also did when you posted your comment. Did you try? And by now clicking anywhere on the red box closes it as well. | |
| Feb 23, 2013 at 1:26 | comment | added | tchrist | I urge — beg, even — you to please, please, please never make us navigate to a very tiny and hard-to-hit X in any sort of routine dismissal box. Even better, allow for keyboard dismissal via the ESC key or a simple RETURN. Pretty please with sugar on it. Don’t make us hook up a joy stick just to navigate SO: this isn’t supposed to be a video game. Hm, or is it? :) | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 11:41 | comment | added | Manishearth | Could we at least have an implicit click to close for the ones which fade out? (they fade out but clicking them fades them out faster--and there's no explicit 'click this to close' message). They also causethis problem | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 9:02 | comment | added | slhck | If the message is just going to auto-fade, then chances are people won't be able to read it before it disappears. It's easy to say you don't see the need, but in reality changing the way something's worked for several years "just because" is a bad excuse :) It's an awkward change that makes me click the popups one or two times just before noticing I actually have to search the X to finally close them. | |
| Feb 21, 2013 at 22:04 | comment | added | Jeremy T StaffMod | @GManNickG That one is on the list, and we'll definitely get to it in the next few days. It's going to auto fade after one second. | |
| Feb 21, 2013 at 21:56 | comment | added | GManNickG | @JeremyTunnell: Not being able to quickly close these is extremely annoying. For example, if I try to upvote a comment and I haven't waited long enough, a dialog box shows up. I already know what it is and just want it to go away, but now I have to actually take focus on it and click the tiny X button. Before I had muscle memory that I could move the mouse down slightly and click, much easier. What is lost by letting users do that? | |
| Feb 20, 2013 at 21:17 | comment | added | Engineer2021 | @JeremyTunnell: Yea, but that's the point. For 3 years, there was no X. It worked great, you could just click the box itself. Why add an X now? | |
| Feb 20, 2013 at 21:10 | comment | added | Jeremy T StaffMod | @0A0D I guess I don't see the need. Basically, if you see an X, click it to close; if you don't, then you can safely ignore it because it will disappear on its own. @ Lightness The short answer is that we needed this new styling to introduce Ajax error messages which are much more user-friendly than the way we used to do it. And we took the opportunity to make everything consistent across the site. | |
| Feb 20, 2013 at 20:46 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | What was wrong with the old system? This is change for change's sake. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 19:41 | comment | added | Engineer2021 | Why not just let people close them immediately? I already know what its going to say, I don't want to wait a second. | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 3:18 | comment | added | Jeremy T StaffMod | One second with a two second fadeout. | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | One second? That hardly seems like enough time. | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 8:12 | comment | added | jscs | That is considerably clearer; thank you for the expanded explanation. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 22:52 | comment | added | Jeremy T StaffMod | @JoshCaswell See my edit for clarification | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 22:48 | history | edited | Jeremy TStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 14, 2013 at 12:36 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Okay, thanks Jeremy. Perhaps this sort of thing can be trialled on Meta before being rolled-out live to Stack Overflow, as has been done in the past? | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 12:36 | vote | accept | Lightness Races in Orbit | ||
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| Feb 14, 2013 at 7:41 | comment | added | jscs | This answer is completely unclear. What do you mean by "error style"? With what did this pop-up get "lumped in"? What isn't an error -- the box, the close action, or the fact that it has this new form? Finally, if this new kind of box is the result of making things more "user-friendly", you might consider this question to be a statement that it's not more user-friendly than the previous version -- it's harder to deal with. | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 6:06 | comment | added | Benjol | @NicolBolas, yup, close dialog without popup could be.. interesting. | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 5:21 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | @JeremyTunnell: "we're not going to use pop-ups at all." ... I'm curious as to how that's going to work. | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 4:27 | comment | added | NullPoiиteя | @JeremyTunnell also its same to close vote dialog ... please add same feature (close dialog when click anywhere in the page else then dialog ) | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 3:49 | comment | added | Jeremy T StaffMod | I'll definitely put that one on the list too. There are a lot of them :) | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 3:25 | comment | added | TLama | Sounds good and I'm looking forward to see that. OT: Anyway, how about those "you can do this in x seconds, click to reset timer" ones ? Those won't be pop-ups anymore ? | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 3:18 | comment | added | Jeremy T StaffMod | I guess I'm saying, in this case, we're not going to use pop-ups at all. So the issue of whether they are closable or not will not apply. | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 2:30 | comment | added | TLama |
Sorry, maybe I missed the resolution ("shouldn't be displayed as such"). So will all the popups be closable as before (by the "whole click") or we'll have to close them using that button (I'm just lazy to use the ESC button, since it's too far to press :-) ?
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| Feb 14, 2013 at 2:16 | history | answered | Jeremy TStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |