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Aza Raskin over at Humanized recently posted a story about what he calls “transparent messages”:

As I’ve explained, modal monolog boxes are dangerous and inhumane. Luckily, there are many other methods of presenting information that are not modal. In particular there is one we are using in Enso, our upcoming product: transparent messages.

Transparent messages are the brainchild of Jef Raskin. It’s simply a large and translucent message that’s displayed over the contents of your screen. They fade away when the user takes any action (like typing or moving the mouse). In practice, the message is both noticeable yet unobtrusive. And because the message is transparent, you can see what’s beneath it. It’s just humane.

Aza’s story includes a video of this concept in action, and some JavaScript source code for including this effect in your own JavaScript applications. Sweet!

Source: Transparent Messages in JavaScript

Now this is definitely a good idea. I like this one a lot.

tags: javascript, web 2.0, transparent, webdev