[Sigia-l] Canberra IA Cocktail Hour: Thursday 15 November 2007

[Matthew Hodgson]

for me it would depend on the cognitive processes of your users.

Is the default behaviour [OK] or is it [Cancel] ?  ... If default is OK then put it first (thinking left-to-right text cultures)

If the culture is right-to-left though, then the default might have to go on the right.

M



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On 9/11/07 12:01 PM, "Juan Ruiz" <Juan.Ruiz at hyro.com> wrote:

> [ OK ] [ Cancel ]    or    [ Cancel ] [ OK ]
>
> In reference to operating systems and software application, Microsoft
> display OK-Cancel, while Apple displays Cancel-OK. What about web
> applications?

web apps are further complicated by the back button being effectively
[cancel], and you want to avoid the html spec 'cancel' button because all it
does is clear the form (and all data entry so far)

e.

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