Friday, October 4, 2013

Chrome Chrome

I've noticed recently that the Chrome web browser has recently updated the 'chrome' of the browsers alert and confirmation boxes. I think it’s an innovative and perhaps long overdue idea.

Think about how these same boxes and other native elements appear on the various mobile devices. The look and feel is a much more seamless user interaction (for instance the select box).



Here's the new Chome alert box:


I Love the new look, however, what is that "The page at localhost says:" line all about? The important message is shown below in a smaller font size.  The design of this box is more from a logical standpoint rather than a useful one. It is nice that Chrome Canary is developing the element under the experimental flag. So I would expect a more thoughtful approach on alert and confirmation boxes.

So Chrome, please change this. Even if it is just flipping the font sizes, though I'd prefer for the entire title line to be removed.