>I am. As I see them, technical users will know how to tweak their
>computer and stuff like that, which more or less forces them to
>understand english a little. Amongst non technical users, you'll
>probably find far more people not knowing english well enough (I'll take
>my sister for example which knows how to use photoshop, but avoid
>english programs since she doesn't understand english quite well - maybe
>french people suck more than people from other countries at learning
>english :=)
Hm well italian sucks too, as you can see :)
Yeah I sort of agree but you know my opinion on how to fix this ... I could
be wrong about the solution, but I dont think this should stop me to try
my vision :)
>> The technical problem is probably fixable (suggest to mozilla guys
>better
>> strings).
>
>Well, I don't really care about that problem, I just wanted to mention
>that issue since that is something you should be worried about imo :)
It's one of the many things where we should focus more than on javascript
disabling. I dont think provide a more powefull PromptService api would
be a solution because it would leave out XUL dialogs.
It's a though reality but if we want to use libraries provided by a community
we need to cooperate with that community :)
>For people saying that people not understanting the message will click
>on ok, I agree, but they will feel really uncomfortable having clicked
>on ok without knowing what happened. Let's take the banking example.
>They get the dialog, click on ok because they don't undertand it, and
>then the site doesn't work because the web designer didn't test it on
>mozilla or doesn't want to support it. The non technical user will think
>"damn, maybe I didn't answer correctly to the previous question, that's
>why it doesn't work", they'll try again, and won't see the dialog, and
>won't really understand what is going on...
I must say it happens to me to, to press ok without thinking much. It would
be wrong to blame this against the user though. I guess the user behave
that way because (prolly there are more reasons ...):
1 he doesnt understand the message. Or usually he doesnt and this make him
assume he will not do this time too.
2 the message or the application is too verbose (too many dialogs ot too
long text)
Both design faults.
Marco
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