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- Subject: Re: Dialogs & Extra Buttons
- Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 13:17:45 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- David Reitter wrote:
- >Evan K. Langlois:
- >
- >EKL>o Dialogs boxes should present buttons in order (left-to-right or
- >EKL>top-down) of "Ok", "Cancel", .. other buttons .., "Help".
- >
- >??? The other way round! right-to-left ist ok, "OK" should be on the right
- >'border':
-
- Yes, for right-handed people, the affirmative option should be on the
- right hand side [no, I 'm not suggesting making it configurable :)].
-
- In general, forcing the user to read confirmation queries is usually
- bad. Better to have:
-
- Document already exists!
-
- Cancel Overwrite
-
- than:
-
- Document already exists,
- Continuing will overwrite!
-
- Cancel Okay
-
- >And: "OK" should be written in CAPITAL LETTERS! ("Profibuch" recommends that,
- >too).
-
- `OK' = `Okay'
- `Ok' = nothing
-
- --
- Warwick
-