Post #2633372

2025-12-23 20:29 UTC

@mjtsai@mastodon.social @bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud I never thought about the Esc / Return key order. I suspect that's a happy coincidence. But if think about OK as "Next" and Cancel as "Back" -- which is often what they mean, and sometimes the default button was or is named "Next" explicitly, the order makes intuitive sense. It just feels right.

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@nonoche@mastodon.social 2025-12-31 18:10

@gruber@mastodon.social @mjtsai@mastodon.social @bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud buttons on macOS dialogs ALWAYS go from least consequential to most consequential (in reading direction), that way you always make informed decisions by reading everything first. On windows, the OK button coming first makes users click on it before reading the rest, giving a fuzzy, uneasy vibe about the experience

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@robmac@aus.social 2026-01-01 04:39

@gruber@mastodon.social @mjtsai@mastodon.social @bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud I was just doing my first React/web app with FastAPI backend using AI (I have no idea how to code that), and it put a “next / OK” button on the left which is even crazier when the back and forward buttons on a browser point left and right. That’s clearly because our written language is left-to-right and I suspect Apple is mimicking that.

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