Re: [Usability] online/offline design

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/19/05, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> 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.  

Absolutely. I'd /hope/ that the dialog I proposed elsewhere in the
thread would only be deployed in response to user-initiated actions-
having evo remind me over and over again that my network is down is of
course a bug, no matter how nice/informative the dialog is.

Luis