Post #2633370
2025-12-23 18:56 UTC
@gruber@mastodon.social Anyone know if there is a reason the OK button is supposed to be on the right (other than convention)?
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@mjtsai@mastodon.social 2025-12-23 19:08
@bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud @gruber@mastodon.social IIRC, it was because if you read RTL it makes sense to put the most common action in the final position that you would read so you don’t have to go back. Also, I think they had an argument that logically left is backward/undo-type actions (Cancel, Don’t Save) and right is forward/progress-type ones (OK, Save). And, lastly, it matches order of the Esc and Return keys on the keyboard.
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@Wattnco@mastodon.social 2025-12-31 22:38
@bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud @gruber@mastodon.social yes. Most.. languages read left to right, top to bottom. This means most… human brains focus on the thing on the bottom right more than the bottom left. So OK being right most makes it visually “higher priority”