- From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:13:11 +0300
On 6/27/05, Karl Pongratz <karlhp at karlhp.com> wrote: <...> > > In most cases, if you show me an application with a modal window, > > I'll show you an application that needs to do away with a modal > > window. The use cases for applications that truly need modal windows > > probably overlaps the use cases for XULRunner-base applications quite > > nicely. > > That's new to me. Can we live without modal windows from now? Is that > somewhere written? <...> Not exactly this way, but you may want to check: Chapter 10 "Eliminating Excise" Chapter 11 "Navigation and Inflection" Chapter 30 "Using Dialogs" Chapter 34 "Notifying and Comfirming" in "About Face 2.0 The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Alan Cooper & Robert Reimann, Willey Publishing, 2003 6-5 "Letter from a User " in "The Human Interface - New Direction for Designing Interactive Systems" by Jef Raskin, Addison-Wesley, 2005 Also the classics: "Design of Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman and "Inmates are Runing the Asylum" by Alan Cooper won't hurt :) Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/
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