Re: Making the correct button the default button?
Re: Making the correct button the default button?
- Subject: Re: Making the correct button the default button?
- From: Graham Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:55:10 +0000
Andreas Mayer wrote:
Am 10.02.2004 um 10:14 schrieb Jens Bauer:
Not everything can be generalized; just one sentence will explain what
I mean...
"Do you really want to erase all your harddisks?" [ Cancel ][ OK ]
I can't see what's wrong with _no_ default button in this case.
That would make it differ from every other dialogue box in the known
Universe, is one thing.
I would prefer the default to be the "do what I just asked you to do"
button: if I'm using a computer and tell it to perform some action it's
almost exclusively because I wanted it to perform some action. If I
accidentally pressed some button, then the appearance of the dialogue
box will cause me to think "erk, what have I just done?" and also give
me the chance to consciously back out. But accidentally pressing
buttons is (apart from when typing, and there isn't a 'format all local
disks' button next to R on this keyboard) less frequent than wanting the
computer to do something.
But anyhoo, that is entirely subjective. I'd assert though that
*consistency* is important; even if all of the dialogues default to what
you or I may consider to be the 'wrong' option, that's infinitely better
than having a random peppering of special cases involving the other
default option, or no default option. No default option will require at
least 0.7s of staring at a dialogue that didn't go away, and 0.7s seems
to be the usual 'this took too long' time.
Graham.
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Graham Lee
Wadham College
OX1 3PN
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