{"id":42173,"date":"2003-10-14T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/10\/14\/why-dont-notification-icons-get-a-message-when-the-user-clicks-the-x-button\/"},"modified":"2003-10-14T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T12:16:00","slug":"why-dont-notification-icons-get-a-message-when-the-user-clicks-the-x-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031014-00\/?p=42173","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#039;t notification icons get a message when the user clicks the &quot;X&quot; button?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>         If such a notification were generated, ill-behaved programs would just react to a         click on the balloon&#8217;s &#8220;X&#8221; button with an annoying follow-up dialog like, &#8220;Are you         sure you want to ignore my wonderful message?&#8221; So there was a conscious decision not         to give them the chance.      <\/p>\n<p>         In the Before Time, software was trusted not to be actively evil, not to second-guess         a user&#8217;s action, not to invade a user&#8217;s private space.      <\/p>\n<p>     Over the years, we&#8217;ve learned that this was a na&iuml;ve position to take. So now, when     we decide that something is an end-user setting, we actively avoid giving programmatic     access to it, so programs won&#8217;t be tempted to weasel themselves into it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If such a notification were generated, ill-behaved programs would just react to a click on the balloon&#8217;s &#8220;X&#8221; button with an annoying follow-up dialog like, &#8220;Are you sure you want to ignore my wonderful message?&#8221; So there was a conscious decision not to give them the chance. In the Before Time, software was trusted not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-42173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If such a notification were generated, ill-behaved programs would just react to a click on the balloon&#8217;s &#8220;X&#8221; button with an annoying follow-up dialog like, &#8220;Are you sure you want to ignore my wonderful message?&#8221; So there was a conscious decision not to give them the chance. In the Before Time, software was trusted not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}