The opposite experience is also disappointing: once I bought a book with 1-click at Amazon (I was probably trying to find out how much the shipping cost would be) and was very surprised that it was really one "no confirmation, your money just went away" click. I'm very afraid of that button.
iirc, for certain sellers you can cancel your order within a certain grace period. The 1-click could have an "undo" option to more easily revert if you didn't mean to click it.
But then they'd probably lose money from the people who impulsively click and regret.
They'd lose more money from people training themselves to never 1-click, or to disable it (if possible) due to this one-time negative experience.
To be fair, it is called ONE-click. What did you think would happen?
Everyone says something like that to advertise that their sale process is super easy...
I have a similar plugin: https://github.com/fredwu/jquery-inline-confirmation This and my plugin both try to replace the abtrusive confirmation dialog with something a bit nicer and less abtrusive. Hopefully less and less people would use the default confirmation dialog.
*obtrusive
Does your browser not spell-check for you?
Just a note: this article is from 2008.
And as expected it rely on the .data("events") interface. So it will not work as is with jQuery 1.8
You want to allow the user to press the enter key on the keyboard in order to confirm/proceed with the action. This plug-in doesn't allow this.
That's why I prefer Javascript confirm() confirmations.