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In his book The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin defines modality as follows: "An human-machine interface is modal with respect to a given gesture when (1) the current state of the interface is not the user's locus of attention and (2) the interface will execute one among several different responses to the gesture, depending on the system's current state."
Modal windows are prone to mode errors. [1] [2] [3] On the Web, they often show images in detail, such as those implemented by Lightbox library, or are used for hover ads. [4] [5] The opposite of modal is modeless. Modeless windows don't block the main window, so the user can switch their focus between them, treating them as palette windows.
A web browser tooltip displayed for hyperlink to HTML, showing what the abbreviation stands for.. The tooltip, also known as infotip or hint, is a common graphical user interface (GUI) element in which, when hovering over a screen element or component, a text box displays information about that element, such as a description of a button's function, what an abbreviation stands for, or the exact ...
Toggle the table of contents. ... 1.5.0 5 Feb 2016: 144 kB (minified & compressed) MIT: ... GUI resizable panels and modal dialogs Yes Yes Yes Yes [97] Yes
An animated toggle switch widget, demonstrating the ambiguous state problem. Early research on touchscreen interfaces has identified usability issues with toggle switches. [2] A common problem is ambiguous state indication: for example does the label "on" indicate the current state of the switch or the resulting state after interacting with it.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification describes how elements of web pages are displayed by graphical browsers. Section 4 of the CSS1 specification defines a "formatting model" that gives block-level elements—such as p and blockquote—a width and height, and three levels of boxes surrounding it: padding, borders, and margins. [4]
One example is visual tabbed browsing in OmniWeb version 5, which displays preview images of pages in a drawer to the left or right of the main browser window. Another feature is the ability to re-order tabs and to bookmark all of the webpages opened in tab panes in a given window in a group or bookmark folder (as well as the ability to reopen ...
A web browser navigation bar includes the back and forward buttons, as well as the Location bar where URLs are entered. [3] Formerly, the functionality of the navigation bar was split between the browser's toolbar and the address bar, but Google Chrome introduced the practice of merging the two.