Are popup dialogs a good thing as far as web application usability is concerned? I know they break the back button. Are they worth using or should they be used only when you cant avoid?
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Are popup dialogs a good thing as far as web application usability is concerned? I know they break the back button. Are they worth using or should they be used only when you cant avoid?
If you are talking about window popups then sure they are considered bad usabiltiy practice. A user feels that he is about to view an advertisement and closes it all sudden. Also it doesnt falls into seamless view of site. Popups are sure a distraction we have currently been working on a project where we use Lightbox modalbox from jQuery to avoid usage of popups which have been very well recieved by users. See
http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/ for examples of Lightboxes.
I always like to read http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html for usability concerns.