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now I'm making a list of all the shapes these messages can take in an interface. I've come up with 5 approaches and I'm thinking about where/when they're appropriate, for which types of application error message security vulnerability messages and scenarios, and how they might not be a good idea sometimes. here
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is my list so far: 1) the notification area used accross the app, always in the same part of the interface,
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usually somewhere at the top. Here is an example. 2) contextual messages, for instance next to a form field that's causing the problem (see this article) 3) modal windows 4) browser dialog boxes 5)
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growl type of message : they pop up in one area of the screen (as opposed to an area of the interface), hence overlaying some of the interface. They either pop up and dissapear by themselves or they wait for the user to close them. Example here. My questions are : have you identified other forms of notifications? do you know any good online resources about this topic? how do web config error messages you personally feel about browser dialog boxes in web apps? I find them terribly annoying most of the time, and I wonder if it's just me Thanks in advance for your thoughts vigneshr35 2010-05-12 10:29:33 UTC #2 Hi, To start with, good work and a nice research. Have some questions first up : By growl type of message, you say that some part of the interface is overlayed right? Does overlay mean that no further operation can be done with that part of the interface ? Are modal window and growl type similar? If not what is the difference between them ? Is it possible to show me an example of the modal window type? Coming to the browser dialog boxes, I assume it is the 'alerts' that come up. And I agree with totally in your saying that they are particularly very annoying. Raphaelle 2010-05-12 10:58:56 UTC #3 Hi vigneshr35, I guess the big difference between growl-like messages and modal windows is that in the first case one's able to ignore the message and carry out some other task, whereas a modal window is usually more "in your face" : it's often displayed in the middle of the screen with the rest of the
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ASP.NET Community Standup Forums Help Home/ASP.NET Forums/General ASP.NET/ASP.NET AJAX + Ajax Control Toolkit/how to allow web application to display error message on remote IIS S... how to https://forums.asp.net/t/1209749.aspx?how+to+allow+web+application+to+display+error+message+on+remote+IIS+Server+ allow web application to display error message on remote IIS Server? RSS 1 reply Last post Jan 23, 2008 01:26 PM by Schnieds ‹ Previous Thread|Next Thread › Print Share Twitter https://www.nngroup.com/articles/error-message-guidelines/ Facebook Email Shortcuts Active Threads Unanswered Threads Unresolved Threads Support Options Advanced Search Related Links GuidanceVideos Reply KentZhou Member 47 Points 571 Posts how to allow web application to display error error message message on remote IIS Server? Jan 23, 2008 01:14 PM|KentZhou|LINK Access a web app runing on a remote server then get error as below. Want to turn on the error setting so that I can see the error in detail. Then add following line in web.config:
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