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Am I the only one noticing the irony in that Newsweek slider being super small, with no way of making it bigger?

“Yes to All”

If the question is “Would I rather die than see this dialogue box?”

Re: The PC dialog box. Never before has the “Never ask me again” checkbox been so compelling!

Anyone know what app this windows dialogue came from?

The “Never Ask Me Again” looks so appealing there :)

It’s from WinSCP. It’s got a lot of options, but they’re pretty darn useful.

@Scott – I believe the dialog box comes from WinSCP.

What’s the difference between cancel and no? or Yes and Append?

I’m not a big fan of sliders and especially these because they are so small. I really don’t want to have to make a micro mouse movement to get something the way I want it. For some reason holding and dragging the mouse annoys me, especially when half a millimeter of mouse movement adjusts the slider one notch.

The slider is okay if there is an alternative interface. How about plus and minus buttons? I find four clicks on ”+” to be a lot easier than trying to slide a slider 4 “notches”, if I can even figure out what the scale is on the slider.

Now I know the idea is simplicity but this is like that whole fuzzy clock thing (my point was that the fuzzy clock is pointless since the human mind can perceive time from an analog clock as either fuzzy or precise as desired). You don’t always have to withhold precision for simplicity’s sake. I think sometimes 37signals goes too far advocating that.

It’s like idiot lights in a car. Everyone despises them for a reason. Who doesn’t like lots of gauges on their car dashboard? I can instantly process what an oil pressure gauge is telling me. I guess the slider equivalent in a car would be a gauge with no numbers or scale whatsoever.

What about “Append to All”? I mean, if we want to be thorough here…

Stationary? Maybe their forms don’t move very much?

How about Yes, No, and an Always Use This Action checkbox? Much simpler.

Fear the time when “Yes to All + Never ask me again” will be famous last words ;-)

The dialog looks crazy but WinSCP is a really great application. I wish there was an os x equivalent on par with WinSCP. I miss it!

I had the same experience with WinSCP a long time ago and thought it was insane. Took me a while to figure out what I should do with the dialog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/donwilson/361914471/

I like sliders.. when appropriate and when you can see immediate change. So you can slide.. and stop at the point where I want it to stop.

But the newsweek sliders don’t show change until you let go. Certainly not the text size one, the top ten range at least shows the range changing when you slide.

And furthermore do I think the placement of the text size changer is rather odd. It’s only at the articles, not in the main design and it doesn’t “remember” it when I have changed the text size.

The thought of adding a text resize to a news-site (which is mainly about reading) is excellent, but the execution is far from perfect.

I’m never sure what “never ask me again” will do next time – will it always do what I’ve just done, or will it always do the default?

I agree with the people saying there is a time and a place for sliders and the way Newsweek uses them just isn’t it. Over the past few weeks some people at the company I work for have been advocating sliders because they “look cool”. They want sliders for questions with only 2 or 3 answers, which is just a nuisance.

Sliders are awesome for seeing immediate results along a broad spectrum (adjusting color or sound properties for example) but not for finite choices. At least that’s my opinion.

As Chris pointed out all those buttons are pretty damn useful. Never mind, some people make fun of the dialog box, if they used SSH /SCP, they would find them useful (sync etc.).