Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

Really nice usability, Ian :-)

2013/2/4 Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Florian Bösch wrote:
>>
>> There is a problem confronting applications desiring to use a variety of
>> APIs such as pointerlock, fullscreen, WebRTC, local storage and so on.
>>
>> The problem is that each instance of attempting to use such an API leads to
>> a new "Allow ..." popup the user has to click away.
>
> Yes, that is a problem. The solution isn't another dialog, though, the
> solution is to design the APIs such that they don't need to prompt, or
> that their prompt doesn't look like a security prompt.
>
> For example, this has a security prompt, but you don't see it:
>
>    <input type=file>
>
> So does drag-and-drop, so did my design for WebRTC, so does the feature
> that allows the author to start a print job. In all these cases, the user
> is asked for information that looks like a request for data but is really
> a request for permission. What file should the page have access to? What
> printer should we print to, with what settings? What camera and microphone
> should we use? Etc.
>
> Fullscreen doesn't need a security dialog -- just have an animation zoom
> the element up to full screen, and the option to force the page back to
> just being zoomed in the tab rather than in the whole screen.
> Notifications don't need a permission UI, just pop the permision up within
> the tab the first time and offer a UI to move the notification to the
> whole screen if the user wants it.
>
> localStorage and other storage mechanisms can all be handled with one
> asynchronous popup which just says:
>
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | example.org is using 4.5/5.0MB. Increase quota? |--+--------| 5GB X|
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> Geolocation can use a similar asynchronous UI:
>
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | (+) example.org wants to know your location. [ San Jose (IP) |V]  X|
> +-----------------------------------------------| Mountain View  |---+
>                                                 | 1600 Plymouth  |
>                                                 | Use GPS        |
>                                                 +----------------+
> And so on.
>
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