phil ringnalda dot com: A bad case of popupitis

Your error message, whether it is explaining to the end user what went wrong and how to fix it, or offering something which can be looked up, or giving debugging information that will help a technician fix the problem, is a popup ad. They use Internet Explorer, they don't have a popup blocker, but they know how to deal with anything, anything, that pops up over their window. BAM! It's closed, without ever having looked at a single word....