Dialog box

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Like the “polite notice”, a blight on our modern age. A canker. an almost inevitable transgression of the JC’s seventh law of worker entropy.

Most dialogue boxes are insentient, unwanted interruptions. They require your pointless intervention, before you can carry on the tedious task you were already occupied with. Dialog boxes can and do get buried under other pointless windows, files and dialogues, to the point where that can no longer be found. There they are the cause of many a crashed session.

Ghastly things.

See also

• Design principles
• Seventh law of worker entropy