There are two points,
the first (catchwords: server, interaction) was already answered by Dmitriy Maslennikov
the second is your 10 second popup button.
In my over 40 years of IT-experience, there is one thing (along with others) I have learnd, is: every timeout is wrong, but messages with timeouts are evil! Whatever time you use, it's either too short or too long.
Imagine, the phone is ringing abd the user has a hot 20 minute discussion on the phone, in the meantime, your popups comes and goes! Unseen! Sometimes several times!
The only resonable solutions are,
- if the message is (just) informative and the message text never changes, then put it into a logfile and show nothing. If the message text is a variable text ("Data is saved" vs. "Can't save: No disk space available") then do the popup with one button (or textinput), see below, but DO NOT use timeouts!
- if the situation allows the user to choose between multiple answers, then let the popup window with those OK, YES, NO, CANCEL, etc. buttons stay there, as long as the user chooses one of them, or as an alternative (application dependent), offer an ordinary text input and at sometime the user types the answer and pushes the enter key.
Messages with (possible with short) timeouts requires a user all the time gazing on the display - which you can't expect.
justmy2cents
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