Having played around with it a bit more - you can achieve precisely the same effect that the X function provides by clicking outside the popup. Which is precisely what I'd expect, and which means we're losing no functionality from removing an interface element, which is nice :)

On 1 February 2013 13:22, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 February 2013 10:21, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 February 2013 01:28, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:

>> X-equals-kill is fairly standard on the Windows platform at least,

> And on web pages that get fancy in general, and web-based Flash
> applications and so forth. Often with weird styling, but something
> that's definitely an X in the top-right corner to kill it.

(My test subject, btw, is a 5yo girl who expects me to make websites
work for her. Basically: look at what flash games are doing, look at
the MMOs for kids like Club Penguin or Bin Weevils. Seriously, play
these things with a kid around and you'll learn *so much* - they have
to entice the kids in with a fantastically usable interface to get
them addicted enough to nag their parents into buying a paid
membership. You don't mess with the visual language the kids pick up
automatically. Kids are perfect test subjects, because they show every
human cognitive bias, all at once, really strongly, in pure and
unadulterated form. "Desktop model" = "website model" = "the computer
is a box of magic but I know what the X up there does".)


- d.

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