From: Michael G Schwern Date: 17:22 on 21 Oct 2007 Subject: Cancel or Skip? My bank has instituted a new "security code" they're supposed to have mailed to me. As bone headed as that is (because NOBODY steals mail) at least they provided a way for me to skip it... for now. Then a big blank-out dialog comes up (from memory)... A log in security code will be sent to you in the mail for account # xxx-xxx-xxxxx-xxxx. You will be allowed to log in two more times without it. [Cancel] [Skip] Canel or skip... what does that MEAN?! It didn't even ask a question! It's a totally custom dialog window so they don't even have the excuse of the hard-wired ok/cancel buttons in the default Javascript dialog.
From: Mike Beattie Date: 00:56 on 23 Oct 2007 Subject: Re: Cancel or Skip? On 22/10/2007, at 5:22 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > My bank has instituted a new "security code" they're supposed to > have mailed > to me. As bone headed as that is (because NOBODY steals mail) at > least they > provided a way for me to skip it... for now. Then a big blank-out > dialog > comes up (from memory)... > > A log in security code will be sent to you in the mail > for account # xxx-xxx-xxxxx-xxxx. You will be allowed > to log in two more times without it. > [Cancel] [Skip] > > Canel or skip... what does that MEAN?! It didn't even ask a > question! It's a > totally custom dialog window so they don't even have the excuse of the > hard-wired ok/cancel buttons in the default Javascript dialog. Don't get me started on the Windows Server (I think) "Do you wish to Copy or Move from that zone? Yes/No" dialog when dragging files to/ from network shares. It turns out that the Yes applies to both copying and moving, and the No cancels the action entirely. It's all about the (lack of) punctuation. Mike.
From: Simon Wistow Date: 01:18 on 23 Oct 2007 Subject: Re: Cancel or Skip? On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:56:16PM +1300, Mike Beattie said: > It's all about the (lack of) punctuation. Eats Shoots and Fails?
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