Elliotte Rusty Harold: “Confirmation is not an adequate substitute for Undo.”
Well said. I’ve seen my share of confirmation dialog abuses. I even remember one particular application that asked you to confirm before saving a new item, then popped out a gleeful message box telling that it had actually saved the item and forcing the user to click the “OK” button to dismiss it.
However, correctly implementing an “undo” feature is not always simple, so I can sympathize with programmers who resort to putting up a confirmation dialog instead. Sometimes you just don’t have enough time to implement everything in the best possible way. In this case, a confirmation dialog is better than nothing.
While we’re at it, I hate applications that ask whether to save modified files before closing. Just save the damn file and backup the old version!
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