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Category: User Interface

Learn how to make less obtrusive login prompts in Rails apps with AJAX that continue the action that triggered them.

Too many programs have the annoying habit of prompting for updates on start up. The worst part is that they will halt their start up process until either I’ve ignored the updates, or they update has completed. I’ve come to call this problem Update Paralysis.

There’s an increasing trend in web applications, to create custom controls providing the appearance of cleaner interface. However, these pretty controls come at the price of breaking functionality of their standardized analogs.