Re: Opinions: Warn about online registration checks?

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On Oct 7, 12:53 pm, Peter Duniho <NpOeStPe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JT wrote:
Still want more opinions! Here's a wrinkle.

What good does it do for an application to ask a user if it is okay to
do something if when the user says, "Yes", it does something
completely different?

Are you saying that something I wrote makes you think you would
implement code that would do that?

I hope not. The scenario you're suggesting is an example of poor UI,
and I didn't write anything that should have been interpreted as
suggesting that you do something like that.

Is that a realistic question? What is your opinion on asking before
performing an online database registration check?

I don't see the connection between the two. Of course, you already know
my opinion on the latter. :)

Pete

Hey Pete,

I'm just playing devil's advocate. I'm sure you don't trust emails
saying that you've won the Uganda lottery and all you have to do is
pay a processing fee. Is it any safer to trust software that says,
"Now I'm going to check our online database." when it could very
easily then extracct sensitive information from your PC and send it to
the database instead. I just think that havng a message box
indicating what you're intending to do gives the user a false sense of
security. I'm not saying you shouldn't do that anyway. I just don't
know what good it really does.

I'm sorry if you think that this is a one-to-one conversation. I
would love to get responses to this from 5000 different people.
That's why I keep asking the question. I don't want this topic to
slide into obscurity just because I happened to post it just before a
weekend and many more topics were posted after it. I wish there was
an opinions and polls group for .NET.

I do appreciate your interest in this. At least I got one response,
but if all I wanted was one opinion, I already had it: mine. That's
not a very good cross-section and mine is usually way different from
most peoples' opinions. But don't stop responding if you still have
things to clarify.

JT

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