Re: UI Guidelines: Dialogs

[Lloyd Wood <l wood eim surrey ac uk>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Calum Benson wrote:

> Actually, in most well-designed interactive applications, there are very
> few cases where a dialog offering *no* choices should appear, as they
> are generally just a nuisance.  (The About box is one of the few valid
> examples I can think of, and it's valid because you've explicitly asked
> for it to appear.)  

'You've got Mail!'

(if you're classing event-driven alerts as dialogs)

L.

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