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carlsednaoui.github.io

24 pointsdaniellegeva49 comments

Ok just incase it's not working for anyone this is what it is doing. If you're on the page and move the mouse out of the window (window onMouseOut) it will trigger a traditional modal.

It took a while for it to work, and I believe it only works once, but when it did, it really worked. My pedantic nature forcer my cursor / attention back on the page and I read the entire modal right when I wanted to leave the page.

If you're evil and making evil pages this is perfect, bravo.

A very clever approach, but something I hope to never see in the wild. If I'm going to close a tab, a pop up like that will most likely just annoy me (and not get read).

I see this in the wild occasionally already (it's not novel). There are a number of feedback/survey providers that do this.

HEY THAT'S GREAT! CAN YOU ADD A BLINKING SCROLL TO THE POPUP AND A DANCING MONKEY THAT SAYS "CLICK TO WIN!!!!!"?

I exclusively use cmd + W to close tabs so at first I didn't even realize what the demo is doing. I guess most people use mouse to close tabs.

I tried this 3 times and didn't realize why it wasn't working until I realized it's not influenced by the keyboard shortcut...

I have ctr-W bound to one of the many buttons of my mouse, a razer naga. Having my most common key combinations bound to my mouse sped up my computer usage a bit.

When closing the tab manually, I clicked so fast I barely noticed the popup, let alone was able to read anything on it.

Are you left handed? I bind some right hand keys to mouse buttons, but my left hand stays on the keyboard so binding ctrl-w wouldn't speed up anything for me...

Thank goodness it doesn't actually prevent you from closing the tab.

Dark Pattern http://larryborsato.com/blog/2013/08/dark-patterns-intention...

CTRL+W closes the tab without the modal appearing

I suspect most of us here use Ctrl+W to close tabs :)

Doesn't work for me.

Firefox with - Pentadactyl - Tree Style Tabs

Doesn't work for me too. Firefox, Tree Style Tabs too, and a lot of other extensions. I enabled scripts, allowed requests. I tried 4 times to let you make my closing the tab harder than the usual.

Pops up on first entry to the viewport after opening it in a tab then switching to the tab with the mouse. This is annoying behavior, perhaps you could ignore the first "top of the viewport" entry if the y-position is trending down?

Doesn't work in Chrome...

Works for me in Chromium. It triggers when you move your cursor up to the top of the viewport.

If your cursor never enters the viewport it doesn't fire. If your cursor exits the viewport at the side or bottom and doesn't reenter it doesn't fire. If you close or switch tabs with a key combination it doesn't fire.

Also, I hate modal popups.

Same experience. I middle clicked on the tab and...it...closed. Without an issue.

Works for me. It triggers when the mouse leaves the viewport near the top

I get the modal when the window opens but not when the tab closes.

I don't think it's intended that the plugin prevents the tab from actually closing (that would be very annoying). It's just to present the user something (special offer, ad, ...)

Neither in Safari 7.0.4

Does this classify as a dark pattern ?

side note, I am not french but had quite a few french colleagues. Doesn't "oui" mean Yes or acknowledgement ? Ouibounce sounds to me like "Yes bounce" which I will interpret as "It is ok to bounce". Why would you choose such a name for landing page service ?

It's a really bad idea if nothing else. It's assuming I'm attempting to close the tab every time my pointer leaves the document container, even if I'm just mousing up to click on an add-on.

I will personally blacklist any site that uses interactive features like this.

I'm not sure what this thing is supposed to be doing... I opened the article up in a new tab... I clicked the new tab, then I moused down to click on the button and a modal dialog popped up thanking me for stopping by. I think things like this are pretty stupid, but this has a few bugs in it.

The worst. This reminds me of when people used to do the alert box spamming.

That'd be pure evil with this technique, as most people close those with the mouse. An alert would pop up as you go to close the tab, you'd click OK, and trigger the whole thing all over again as you go to close the tab.

Please, implement handling of the ESC key for closing the modal. Nothing worse than having to switch to the mouse because the close button even cannot be tab'd to.

Bounce Exchange http://bounceexchange.com/ does this as their main product.

Middle mouse clicking to open the link in a new tab and then clicking on the tab to change to it fires the event. Not that useful in my opinion.

Doesn't work with Ctrl+W or with Tree Style Tab.

Also to note, I exited the window via the side edge, then closed from the tab bar and it didn't respond.

I believe that's a feature. I think it just detects mouse exits towards the top of the screen. There's a good chance that sites that use this library won't have many users that close tabs like that.

Ditto the "ctrl-w worked for me in FF with a variety of extensions" comment.

Thank goodness.

It only works if you mouse into the window, which I don't typically do when skimming websites.

Tab closed quite easily in Chrome. Suggest the author try a slightly modified challenge.

one of the stupidest things ever, this is a direct violation of user experience etiquette, not only does it function very badly, and does not trigger on keyboard shortcuts, it is a purely annoying and anti user function

Screw anyone who uses this crap, I will close the tab and never come back.

Definitely doesn't work in Chrome. I just closed the tab as expected.

Okay. That was easy.

Closing the tab closes the tab for me. Do I win now?

I closed this tab on my iPad and nothing happens.

Why does something like this make it to the front page of HackerNews? I'm surprised that it would get enough upvotes.

Annoying

Normally I would agree, but there's a novel mouse-tracking approach here that could be used for less annoying "user-bail" effects and behavior monitoring (a/b tests and what-not).

Some other interesting metrics to collect would be if the tab stays open, but the user never mouses over it (forgets about it), and if they close the tab using command-W (which you probably wouldn't be able to trap I'm assuming).

Ctrl + W :D

well it closes ...

Doesn't work in MobileSafari, iOS 7.

Given that it relies on detecting mouse behaviour, that shouldn't come as a shock.

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