Confirmation dialogs were designed by masochists intent on making users of the web miserable. At least that’s how I feel when I run into too many of them. And yes, if you take a look at Subtext, you can see I’m a perpetrator. Well no longer! I was managing my Netflix queue recently when I accidentally added a movie I did not intend to add (click on the image for a larger view). Naturally, I clicked on the blue “x” to remove it from the queue and saw this. Notice that there’s no confirmation...
Many web applications (such as this blog) allow users to enter HTML as a comment. For security reasons, the set of allowed tags is tightly constrained by logic running on the server. Because of this, it’s helpful to provide a preview of what the comment will look like as the user is typing the comment. That’s exactly what my live preview jQuery plugin does. See it in action This is the first jQuery Plugin I’ve written, so I welcome feedback. I was in the process of converting a bunch of JavaScript code in Subtext to make...