Somewhat confusing message confirmation page title

[metawidget]

Title:
Somewhat confusing message confirmation page title

Area:
Messaging

Summary:
The title of the page confirming that a message has been sent is "Compose Message", which when I see a tab with that, makes me think I have unfinished message business. Maybe, if the page (http://www.dreamwidth.org/inbox/compose) is confirming a sent message, the page title and header could read "Message Sent Successfully" or something similar.

Description:
This would make the site more usable for heavy tab-flipping types, and I suspect for people who get their pages in a very linear manner, e.g. screen-reader users or people using very large type — they would know immediately what has happened with their message right away.

Ideally, if the message failed to send for some reason, the title and heading could indicate that too — I've never had a message fail to send, but while you're in there, it might be nice to change that.

I suspect the solution wouldn't make anyone's life harder — it'd be another few entries in the English-stripping file and some more logic in building the page, but from the user perspective I can't think of a drawback, so long as the new titles all included the word "message" to cue people as to what process is succeeding or failing.

Poll #12203 Somewhat confusing message confirmation page title

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57

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Should be implemented as-is.
46 (80.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (19.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[sharpiefan]

I don't normally send messages using DW's messasge interface but I've been doing it a lot recently and I've run into that more than once. Changing it to something like the suggested 'message sent successfully' would help people like me quite a lot! :D