194072 - No tooltip available for blocked popup icon in status bar.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P2)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Using oct28 commercial branch, linux rh6.2

After seeing the blocked popup icon appear in the status bar, I found there's no
tooltip for it.   Must click on it/open to window in order to figure out what it is.



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-28 13:22 PST ----

also a problem on other platforms -> all.

jglick / jatin, what should the tooltip text be for this?



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-28 14:33 PST ----

"Popups are blocked on this web site. Click this icon to allow popups on this site."



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-28 14:44 PST ----

how about something shorter? the text would be going into a tooltip, which
should be brief. :) thanks!



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-28 17:06 PST ----

By the way, has Localization approved this change? Adding Michelle.

Here is my suggested shorter wording:

"Popups are blocked. Click this icon to allow popups on this site."

I don't feel the wording can be any shorter without being incomplete or
confusing. It has the same number of words as the bookmark icon.



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-28 21:13 PST ----

Do we need to add a tooltip for Blackbird? Has localization impact, negligible
gain -- how many people are even going to notice there isn't one, or consider it
a bug if they do notice?

"Popups are blocked" is misleading, could be interpreted as meaning the global
state of the pref, while we might be allowing popups but have this one site
blacklisted. "A popup was blocked"?

I notice the tooltip for the security icon makes no mention of the security
state. In fact it doesn't even mention you can click the icon -- the tooltip
applies to both the icon itself and to the dialog you get if you click it. Maybe
that's being too clever.


"Popups on this site have been blocked" and skip the click part?



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-29 08:48 PST ----

Unlike the security icon, the popup blocking icon serves two purposes. Not only
does it show that popups are blocked, but it adds a shortcut for users to access
popup controls. The icon even expedites adding a particular site to the white
list by prefilling the address.

I do agree that "popups are blocked" could be misunderstood, so here is another
pass at wording:


"This site's popups are blocked. Click here to unblock this site's popups."



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-29 09:12 PST ----

We have not sent out our l10n kit for translation yet because we're waiting for
a few things to be finalized before we do. Please go forward with any UI changes
you'd like to today. Please check in UI changes today if possible. We're hoping
things will settle down and we'll be able to send out kit out for translation
today or tomorrow. After we send out our kit then any UI changes will have an
impact on us. thanks.



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-29 16:05 PST ----

The security icon also serves two purposes -- it shows whether the page is
encrypted or not, and can be clicked to bring up the page info tab showing
certificate details.



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2002-10-30 11:28 PST ----

After consulting with Steve (rudman), here is revised wording:

"Unblock this site's popups"

We felt that after users read this tooltip, we can safely assume that they will
know that popups are blocked on this site and this icon can be used to unblock
them. We also felt that tooltips are most effective when they start with verbs
and convey an action. Simply giving informational status about the icon may not
inform users that the icon can be used for other purposes.



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2003-02-03 15:41 PST ----

could we get this in for Buffy? that is, if it's a simple fix.

if yes, i'll move this over to bugzilla, so that both commercial and mozilla
trees benefit from the fix.



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2003-02-13 11:11 PST ----

i'd like to move this to bugzilla --it'd be good to have the tooltip available
in mozilla as well. any concerns?



------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2003-02-13 17:04 PST ----

over to bugzilla it is :)

Bug moved to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org.

If the move succeeded, [e-mail] will receive a mail
containing the number of the new bug in the other database.
If all went well,  please mark this bug verified, and paste
in a link to the new bug. Otherwise, reopen this bug.




------- Bug moved to this database by [e-mail] 2003-02-19 10:19 -------

This bug previously known as bug 20929 at http://bugscape.nscp.aoltw.net/
http://bugscape.nscp.aoltw.net/show_bug.cgi?id=20929
Originally filed under the Browser product and Popup Blocking component.

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Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

grr, the import routines obviously need help.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

confirming...  (it was NEW on the Bugscape side)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 194170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 178492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

Nav usability team: nsbeta1+/adt3

Comment 6

[shliang]

Attachment: add tooltip

Comment 7

[Samir Gehani]

Comment on attachment 116226 [details] [diff] [review]
add tooltip

r=sgehani

Comment 8

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Comment on attachment 116226 [details] [diff] [review]
add tooltip

sr=jag

Comment 9

[shliang]

resolving

Comment 10

[Jason Bassford]

Er - I don't have a blocked cookie tooltip available in the 0306-04 Win32 build
running under XP.  Am I missing something or was this not supposed to be working
on all Mozilla platforms?

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i don't see a tooltip for the blocked popup icon. tested with 2003.03.05 comm
trunk bits, and reopening.

Comment 12

[shliang]

i must have marked this fixed by accident because i never checked in.

Comment 13

[shliang]

fixed

Comment 14

[Jason Bassford]

...so it's been checked in this time? <grin>

Comment 15

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

yep, now i see the tooltip --using 2003.03.07.10 comm trunk on linux rh7.2.

Comment 16

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

and vrfy'ing with 2003.03.11 on win2k and mac 10.2.4.