Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] "Save ... before ..." dialogs: "Yes/No/Cancel" buttons for a
Ulf Lamping wrote:
HIG tells you that the action should be on the button - it makes it much
faster to handle.
More than one HIG, to be precise:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_17_section_6.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-CJECBHJE
"Buttons for addressing the alert. Button names should correspond to the
action the user performs when pressing the button—for example, Erase,
Save, or Delete."
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-alert.html#alert-button-order
"Button Phrasing. Write button labels as imperative verbs, for example
Save, Print. This allows users to select an action with less hesitation.
An active phrase also fits best with the button's role in initiating
actions, as contrasted with a more passive phrase. For example Find and
Log In are better buttons than than Yes and OK."
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/dialogs/simple.html
"Although Yes-No questions have an appealing simplicity, they do have a
downside. While the implications of the Yes answer are usually very
clear, the implications of the No answer are often not clear at all. The
question "Do you want to save your changes?" serves as a good example.
Pressing "Yes" will get the changes saved, but what happens when the
user presses the "No" button? Rephrasing the question as an Either-Or
question will help make this more clear: "Do you want to save or discard
your changes?". Now there can be buttons labeled "Save" and "Discard",
and the consequences of both are equally clear."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/UxGuide/UXGuide/Windows/DialogBoxes/DialogBoxes.asp
"Prefer specific responses to Yes and No buttons. While there's nothing
wrong with using Yes and No, specific responses can be understood more
quickly, resulting in efficient decision making."
