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The magic button — Make Everything OK

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This would have been so so so much better if it'd stuck at 99%

This is a great example of why you should use platform UI, and shouldn't try to re-invent them:

1. Click the mouse and hold. The button doesn't depress (huh?)

2. Release the mouse button. Now it depresses (wtf). And actives.

3. Hover the mouse over it, it doesn't highlight.

4. Click the mouse and hold, then drag the mouse outside the button area. Release the mouse button. It depresses (ugh) and actives.

5. Click the disabled button while the progress dialog box is on screen. The progress box vanishes and the button actives

6. Attempt to active the button using the keyboard.

7. Attempt to make the button the focus for keyboard action by right-clicking or middle-clicking it (or click and drag out of it, but we already know that doesn't work). [This is a GTK feature]

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The button and blur effect are both very beautiful, so at first I was excited to see how they were done in code. But it turned out to be just plain images, no fancy CSS. In fact the entire popup dialog is an image, complete with the close button. Ah well...

It doesn't have to be a fancy CSS hack. It has to look nice. And it does. Simplest solutions are often good enough :).

But it works!

Would be nice if it linked to Ze Frank's Chillout Song: http://www.zefrank.com/chillout/

Story behind this song is amazing and inspiring. Thank you for linking to that :).

Is it just me or did anyone else feel more relaxed after that? It's good to know that there is something out there that will make everything ok.

No, this is complete bullshit. And the fact that it has gotten so many votes is ridiculous.

You sound unhappy. Maybe you should click the button-- it makes everything OK.

^ this is the best comment.

Fuck off wanker.

Funnily enough, yes. Psychology hack.

Ha! This is a flashier and more philosophical cousin of ...

The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything

http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm

But that doesn't "doesn't do anything"--it reloads the page.

Someone should tell the author, I guess ;)

But, if a page reloads and is exactly the same, did anything really happen?

The answer is yes, HTTP requests and caches at work, quite a lot is going on.

As someone on HN, I understand that. I was just being philosophical.

I guess, thinking whether anything happened depends on one's level of perception, and one's definition of what it means for something to "happen". (That is, whether you are looking only at the final result of a process, or at everything that happens during the process, irrespective of the final outcome).

If my Internet-newbie father clicked that button repeatedly, I'm sure he would think that "nothing is happening", and at his level of perception, that statement would be correct.

EDIT: Elaboration.

Nice, simple, beautiful and funny. It might be cool if they tied the donate button into a charity or NPO and play off the fact that clicking it would actually help make things okay for someone.

I don't want to be a curmudgeon, but why would anyone donate to that? Especially with no info about who is behind the site and why they did it.

Because it is fun, thought-provoking a little bit, and just made me smile :).

Yeah, and I agree to an extent. It just seems weird to me, as a donation usually goes towards something that you believe in and want to help flourish. There's not even an indication of what the donations would be used for.

I certainly don't want to make a crusade out of it, but it just felt a little misplaced to me.

Some people believe in art and want to help it flourish.

I believe in creative thoughts which not harm, but which do something good, even if it's just making someone smile. And I definitely want them to flourish. Art is, of course, one of the types of those creative thoughts.

>info about who is behind the site:

Two names with a copyright are listed in an HTML comment in the source code at the end of the page. This information could be false of course.

Ah, the Internet: connecting together everyone with Too Much Free Time since 1991.

Nice and funny.

Being at OK buttons, the Donate button, is not OK

Raising money for a joke? Come on!

I don't see a problem with that. It's completely unobtrusive and doesn't distract at all. I spotted it by accident. I don't thing they're raising money, they're just allowing people who want to to show appreciation for their work.

I'm seriously considering pointing people coming to me with a generic "it doesn't work" to this page to have it fixed.

Thanks for this post!

Just pointed my boss - "Use this if something goes wrong". ;).

EDIT: And she replied that "everything is now OK" :). Yey, it works!

I'm not one to do this, but really, how does this belong on Hacker News? Is there something I'm missing?

It isn't. Stupid noise that appeals to the +1-ing social media sharing neophytes all over HN these days.

hmmm - "try checking your settings of perception of objective reality." - a bit geeky and out of touch I think ...

I would have said: "remember, you're alive, now take a deep breath, count your blessings, and make the best out of today and every day"

but everything's ok :)

This is great, but the final sentence could be happier, more colorful or something.

Is it just me, or is it broken in Google Chrome? In Firefox it works fine for me, but in Chrome, I initially see the "Everything is OK now" sign and can't click on anything...

Why would you want to click anything if everything is ok now?

(Works for me in Chrome 12 on Windows 7.)

Just because things are OK doesnt mean you wont be doing anything

Works for me in Chrome 12.0 on Crunchbang (Debian) Linux.

Got more strange JavaScript related Problems today. Just rebooted my mac and everything works fine now. Yes, rebooting isn't actually just a windows cure!

+1 made me smile. Just what i needed right now

multiple clicks break it

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