I was privileged to spend a yesterday at OSCON with everyone at Twilio, and I managed to catch a few talks. I heard Sigurd Magnusson (of Silverstripe fame) give the talk “10 Usability Epiphanies for your Open-Source Web App” which focused on how to improve usability. Point 10 was “Keyboard”, and one suggestion was to allow enter and escape to proceed and cancel just like native dialog boxes. It just so happens that the web app I’m working on uses a non-native confirm dialog box with “yes” and “no” buttons, so on the plane home I changed the behavior to implement this small but crucial usability enhancement. You know, I like it. Small details like this will really improve the overall experience, and I thought I’d share the essentials of my now-enhanced jQuery dialog function here.
