5 Aug
2009
5 Aug
'09
5:36 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Ecaterina Valica<valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think it'd be better to use a secondary button and not a link.
This secondary button would be in a lighter color. This might not be
the most efficient layout (according to the article you point to [1]
the button+link layout wins) but it can be adapted to more than 2
buttons and, IMHO looks a bit better.
Point taken, again the article you point to [1] is very interesting.
We might need both layouts (left aligned and centerd) though.
+1 to have rule stating that we must use left aligned buttons with
vertical aligned forms.
[1] : http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/psactions.asp
WDYT about
mixing the first 2 proposals, having the buttons positioned
side by side but with the default action in a darker color ?
yeah, that's not clear at all, but that's not a proposal, it was just an img
stating that when having two buttons of same kind, there can be confusion.
So, the button are positioned SIDE by SIDE and the primary action is gonna
be highlighted. The problem is if we want secondary action is represented as
a link or as a common button. It'd look like our OSes dialog boxes where
the default action is
selected by default (having a bit of JS to mimic this behavior could
be nice).
this would be nice - instead of the dark background to have a border that
mimics the selected action.
Also WDYT about having the buttons centered by default ?
Here is a problem. Having vertical aligned forms means we will have the
buttons left centered, so the users scans the labels and have a clean path
to completion with a button aligned with the form elements and labels. So
the centered buttons will not fit in the vertical alignment proposal.
2. Vertical Aligned Forms
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/Forms
+1, having good looking vertical aligned forms is the way to go.