Re:Don't Interrupt (Score 1)

In Code Complete Steve McDonnel accuses us nerds of being impolite and nerdy in the way we interrupt the users with dialog boxes. Popping up a dialog box, demanding an immediate response, is often the easiest course of action for the programmer, but often unnecessarily disruptive for the user. Firefox's find and popup blocker dialogs which appear at the bottom and the top of the page are a step in the right direction. It's a bit defeatist to claim Linux has to ape bad interface elements from Windows to attract the ignorant.