Post #2457951

2026-05-12 22:25 UTC

Eh? What do radio buttons have to do with anything? The styling of a UI element - whether it’s a box that gets an X or tick in it, versus a little thingy that moves left and right - is wholly unrelated to any aspects of implementation, including whether the effect happens immediately or not.

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@Vincent@feddit.nl 2026-05-13 08:25

I was trying to make the point that the way a control looks gives you some information on how it will behave, because software has generally been consistent with associating those looks with those behaviours. So if you see multiple options with a circle in front of them, selecting one, then selecting another will usually deselect the first one. On the other hand, if those options have squares in front of them, selecting one, then selecting another will usually result in both of them being selected. And in both cases, usually they will be part of a form and will only take effect when you submit that form using a button. On the other hand, something that looks like a toggle usually takes effect immediately on toggling. Of course it is technically always possible to have each of those behave like any of the others, but you will be breaking conventions if you do so. Styling is an affordance to inform the user about the behaviour.

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