[mb-users] "Edit All" - Is it problematic to understand?

[Edward Branham]

Beth is correct again! 

Rollovers can be problematic as well.  For instance, the way AMG serves 
the album cover as your mouse traverses a list of albums is terribly 
frustrating. 

Beth wrote:

>And I personally despise overuse of popups, and it is a big "no no" as far
>as I'm concerned as well due to many sources on webdesign.
>
>I much prefer the option of right click over a link, for whatever reason, to
>open in a new window (IE) or to open in a new tab (Firefox) or whatnot.
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>My 2c
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>Nyght aka Beth
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>[mailto:musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of Stefan
>Kestenholz
>Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 6:16 AM
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>Subject: Re: [mb-users] "Edit All" - Is it problematic to understand?
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>>Huh? It works fine for me. I often open the 'add note' links (which are
>>normally popups) in new tabs. It works fine in Opera and Firefox.
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>yes, quite right. since i learned about unobstructive javascript, i
>found a way to have both possibilites available. but it isn't trivial,
>you have to use the context menu on the link, to circumvent the
>javascript handling, which requires you to be aware of this option
>first. generally, its better to not force the decision on the user
>what they want to do with a link, therefore i'd rather not have them
>as popup windows, it goes against all useability literature i have
>seen (jakob nielsen, effective interaction design et.al).
>
>keschte
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