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- Subject: Re: Dialogs & Extra Buttons
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 17:57:27 +0200 (MDT)
- In-Reply-To: <9407080317.AA26595@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 8, 94 01:17:45 pm
- From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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- > Yes, for right-handed people, the affirmative option should be on the
- > right hand side [no, I 'm not suggesting making it configurable :)].
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- No, Atari has specified that it should be the other way round.
- Which is understandable, as there may be more affirmative options
- while there is only one meaning for Cancel: *DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING*.
- So really, Cancel is the only button with an absolutely clear effect,
- so *it* should have the easiest place (i.e. the right).
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- Experience shows that users hate to have to choose between different
- (or has shown to me)
- negative alternatives such as 'abort', 'cancel', 'abandon' etc.
- so rather than OK, 'Cancel' should have the profit of an intuitive
- place.
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