If you use the Java version of our games, you know that the Resign button is quite near the Send button (right next to it in games like Backgammon where you don't have a Draw button; next to the Draw button in games like Checkers that have one).
I think we can all agree that's about as far from an ideal arrangement as you can readily get. :-)
I've always said that the DHTML games update would fix this. The last time I looked at moving the Resign button, I ended up completely messing up the applet display and it seemed like wasted time, so I dropped it. But the DHTML games are taking too long (because of other demands on my time -- you know, like the mortgage, or my son), so I took another look at it today and found that I'd made it a lot easier a while back with a different change I made to the applet.
So tomorrow we'll be updating the Java games to put the Resign button at the bottom right of the applet (just above the display of the applet version). Hopefully it'll be a lot harder to accidentally hit it there.
I can't count the number of times I've hit it by mistake. So far I've managed never to actually confirm the resignation, but it's been close a couple of times...
Lol. I'll join you on that one. I've been thankful of that "Are you sure..." countless times!
On the other dialogue, when I have to pass my turn, I'm used to automatically clicking the checkbox so that I get to see the board for each move (otherwise how can I apply my psychic powers to the dice! lol ;O). I'll be glad of the [Resign] moving because what I'm always afraid of is one day sleepily applying that same automatic see checkbox, click it, hit [OK] action, and resigning the match. ;o)
Yes, I think I am with you on this, but TJ can I just say, you are awesome as always
Re: The dreaded Resign button (Java games only)
Message #19174 Replies: 2
posted by petr.pavel (Petr 'PePa' Pavel) on 03/08 at 16:39
Cool :-)
I wonder, when you're at it, if you could move the Next link/button some place very close to Send. Now when I want to send my move and go onto the next game, I have to travel all the way across the page which makes my mouse very tired.
You know that I actually used Firefox userContent.css to move the link where I want it but maybe other players would like to enjoy the comfort as well.
We'll be addressing that with the DHTML games. Believe it or not, the "next game" link is where it is for a reason. Originally, it was on the other side, where the Rules/Instructions link is now. But there is/was a bug in the combination of Internet Explorer, the Sun Java plug-in, and (I think) the Google ads we used to use (details in this thread). Moving the next game link to the other side made it much, much less likely that users would run into the bug (which has nothing to do with PM, but it was affecting a lot of PM users).
Now, A) The bug could well have been fixed, and B) We don't use Google ads anymore. But rather than rattle people's cages moving things around, we'll leave it as is until we do the new games stuff -- at which point, expect at least one fewer clicks anyway...
posted by jonfunk (Jonathan Funk) on 03/10 at 15:33
While you're at it, could you implement an optional (i.e. user profile option) "Auto-next-game" function, so that hitting 'Send' carries you right along?
A few exceptions may apply (Ex. Backgammon games in which opponent is trapped).
Perhaps this could be handled better with a new button, near the current 'Send' button: "Send & Next".
You didn't know, for sure how all that would affect all of us, did you? :)
I think not.
Live and learn, and btw, you're quite exonerated! (As if I'm in that "lofty" position!) Had it been me, I'm sure I would've made the very same "mistake".
I'm On webtv, n the resign button is on the side of the game boards that I play, when I do play...the send button is at the bottom after u send a message or the move...send is at the bottom on the left side...n resign is at the top on the right hand side of the game board...but I have accidentally hit it...once or twice...jst have to be careful no matter where it may be... You do have a great site....sorry I can't be on it more often.... Great job on everything u do....great site..!!!
I love your website. I would like to ask if you could move the "Roll" button away from the "Double" button in backgammon. I was surprised recently, I was very much behind in a game, and I was trying hard to bang out doubles, (as if I could, lol) but the mouse moved a hair and I clicked on "double" by mistake. Thank you.
As always TJ you are up on it. the resign button is in a great place. no where near anything at all. WAY TO GO AS USUAL . YOU DO A GREAT JOB ON THIS SITE..
...making the send button twice the size it is now would be awesome...
Yes indeed. That's one of the things I'm doing in the rewritten DHTML games, making use of Fitts' law that the ease with which we can navigate to something on the screen is a function of how near and large it is. -- T.J. Crowder First Primate Pocket-Monkey.com
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