There might be many pros and cons to this question, but one of the points
that should be given most importance in my opinion is the user.
A user interface is about safty. The user should be feeling safe when using
a piece of software. If not only the daring users are left, that leaves us
developer
Sure,
And we put "ok" on the left because we dont want an inadvertant
consent to a query.
You put up an "ok" dialog because you want to check that the user is
sure. and
you put "ok" on the left so they don't naturally just 'click" on the
right which means
consent.
Oh.. and my dialogs
On 2009-05-26, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2009 10:35:56 -0700 Steve Mosher said:
>
> ever since i can remember, ok on dialogs was left, cancel on the right. the
> order "ok/apply/cancel" is old as the hills (and going left to right, where
> a missing elements just don't appear).
Th
On Sat, 23 May 2009 10:35:56 -0700 Steve Mosher said:
ever since i can remember, ok on dialogs was left, cancel on the right. the
order "ok/apply/cancel" is old as the hills (and going left to right, where
a missing elements just don't appear).
phones have simply followed this convention. (and a
hehe.
I cannot count the number of times I have hung up on "incoming"
because the cancel button is on the right.
From one perspective "go" or initiate buttons should be on the right
where the "return" or "enter button" is. But cell phones have it
backwards. who knows where these conventions st
> Probably because:
> 91% humans are right-handed
> So you hold your phone on the left hand, to let the right one use a pen,
> click on mouse, or scratch your noze...
> And you click Ok with the thumb, close to the left side of the phone.
AFAICT most people answer with the right hand, and then
> It always struck me as extremely counter-intuitive, at least
> as someone who writes from left to right, to have the button that
> basically says "go back" on the right side and the one that says
> "move on" on the left.
While I agree with this, I have to point out that the backspace key is
usua
Le 14384ième jour après Epoch,
Werner Almesberger écrivait:
> Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
>> It seems at least a de facto standard for cellphones is:
>> "green button" (aka OK) LEFT side
>> "red button" (aka cancel) RIGHT side
>
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where this convention comes
>
Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where this convention comes
> from ? It always struck me as extremely counter-intuitive, at least
> as someone who writes from left to right, to have the button that
> basically says "go back" on the right side and the one that say
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where this convention comes
> from ? It always struck me as extremely counter-intuitive, at least
> as someone who writes from left to right, to have the button that
> basically says "go back" on t
On May 20, 2009 12:31:22 pm Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> > It seems at least a de facto standard for cellphones is:
> > "green button" (aka OK) LEFT side
> > "red button" (aka cancel) RIGHT side
>
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where this convention comes
> from
Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> It seems at least a de facto standard for cellphones is:
> "green button" (aka OK) LEFT side
> "red button" (aka cancel) RIGHT side
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where this convention comes
from ? It always struck me as extremely counter-intuitive, at least
as
It seems at least a de facto standard for cellphones is:
"green button" (aka OK) LEFT side
"red button" (aka cancel) RIGHT side
I strongly suggest to adhere to this general rule for all yes/no-requesters,
especially for dialer accept / reject buttons.
/jOERG
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