Minecraft founder Markus “Notch” Persson, recently suffered what will probably go down as the pop-up problem of the year, the Windows 10 upgrade dialogue: If you’re in full flow – and it seemingly only happens to me when I’m typing at mach one – you can unwittingly action the pop up so fast that you don’t even know what you’ve done. They allow you to hit the direction keys or a key that represents the correct button – “a” for accept, for instance – to select the right answer and press either the enter key or the spacebar to action your selection. The useful shortcuts that allow you to select and activate buttons with the keyboard are your undoing here. Most of the time it’s just the password field, but if you are particularly unlucky you’ll find that the window will be focused on either an accept, OK or cancel button. You, the productive user, continue merrily bashing out your missive, unknowingly typing into the newly selected box. Stealing focus is where the computer completely ignores what you’re trying to do, say typing out an email, a news story, or a piece of code, and jumps the cursor to some dialogue box demanding an answer or password.
But it isn’t necessarily the pop up that’s actually the problem – it’s more the fact that it steals focus. They’re a bane of the modern life, from ads to irritating dialogue boxes, and should be put out to pasture.
There’s little more frustrating for a regular computer user than a pop-up that demands your undivided attention right when you’re in the middle of something crucial.
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