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Tests show standard UI inputs are understood the best. Just use the checkbox for your website.
by ivankirigin 17y ago
Tests show standard UI inputs are understood the best. Just use the checkbox for your website.
- daleharvey 17y agoI think most people would appreciate a reference the tests mentioned (I would at least)
- mey 17y agoI have no idea what parent's reference test are, but posit that things that are familiar are easier to use. Now considering how widespread the iPhone/iPod are in use, I doubt many people would have trouble putting 2 and 2 together.
- ivankirigin 17y agoThe iphone isn't nearly as common as, say, any of the top 3 browsers.
- daleharvey 17y agoI think thats what the parent was suggesting, but the same logic gets you nothing new, ever.
- ivankirigin 17y agoThe parent said: - well known things are good - the iphone is well known Relative to other technologies, it is not. Also, changing the platform might require interface changes that are clearer and easier on that platform. I'm not saying iphone checkboxes are bad. I love them. But they stink when they aren't on the iphone. They even stink when they are on the iphone but in a web app. The issue here is whether something from a new platform should be used on an old platform. No, if the tools aren't standard. Note that new browsers and browser versions render checkboxes differently, which yields incremental changes over time.
- ivankirigin 17y agoYeah, I don't have one handy. I've heard this about a dozen times though. It is a commonly accepted best practice at places I have worked. But on a meta level, doesn't this feature strike you as a bit cargo-cult?
- staunch 17y agoYou're blindly following advice you've "heard", while calling this cargo-cult...
- ivankirigin 17y agoCargo cult is when you copy what something looks like, without it working like it should. Iphone-looking checkboxes not on an iphone fit that really well. I apologize for not having a link to the words that have come out of the mouth of every designer I've worked with.
- irrelative 17y agoAdditionally, the iPhone checkboxes were created because clicking checkboxes is hard to do with the iPhone interface, not because they're better than plain old checkboxes. Just because Apple does it, doesn't mean it's the best way to do things all the time.