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When doing some task on Windows and clicking the ESCape key, I often see dialogs like this:
and today was thinking: some software asks if I want to save, other software asks if I want to cancel, but a software developer who hated her customers could have some real fun with this by varying the messages at random within the same program:
requiring the user to really pay attention each time. There's lots of room for imagination here.
How fun would that be? :-)
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Steve Friedl is a software and network security consultant in Southern California. He has been a C and UNIX developer since 1981 and has an exceptionally broad background in this area. Some areas of expertise include:
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Posted by: Jeffy | October 01, 2018 at 06:34 AM