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Fully highlighted button responds to Enter, the most powerful action. The button with a border only is associated with the secondary action, space bar. Makes pe
by rado 7y ago
Fully highlighted button responds to Enter, the most powerful action. The button with a border only is associated with the secondary action, space bar. Makes perfect sense.
- dredmorbius 7y agoRegarding "intuitive": https://invidio.us/watch?v=updE5LVe6tg https://invidio.us/watch?v=updE5LVe6tg (Ellen's Millennial challenge.)
- bsaul 7y agoi’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or if we just don’t live on the same planet :))
- falcolas 7y agoSeems like a useful feature with terrible discoverability and a lack of intuitiveness. Don Norman would not approve. ;)
- saagarjha 7y agoIt’s off by default, presumably because it takes a bit of effort to use effectively and is thus only useful to power users and those who need it for accessibility reasons.
- bathtub365 7y agoIt makes sense because you’re already familiar with the platform convention. It’s not intuitive. Space bar is a larger key and easier to reach, why isn’t it associated with the more “powerful” action?
- jtth 7y agoThat is how language works.
- briandear 7y agoThe space bar isn’t typically associated with a “big” action, but Enter is.
- saagarjha 7y agoIt’s not about “power”, it’s about the default key to perform an action being enter. So dialogs will run the default action, signified by the highlighted button, when you press enter. Space is intended for selecting the retargetable focused item.
- bathtub365 7y ago> Space is intended for selecting the retargetable focused item. Sure, but how is that intuitive?
- saagarjha 7y agoIt's standard UI for keyboard focus across most operating systems. At some point, you're just going to have to know that space selects the item that the focus ring is around, just like you know that tab switches between fields. (By the way, this is off by default so you don't invoke it accidentally without knowing how it works.)
- mdorazio 7y agoThis makes no sense whatsoever.
- fenomas 7y agoSure, I know that's the reason. There's a behind every UX decision, always, even the most stupendously bad ones. As such, the relevant question isn't "is it logical?", but rather "is having two UI focus targets so useful that it justifies cases where the user will lose data if they choose incorrectly between two superficially similar options?". And obviously that's down to opinion, but it seems like a pretty huge glaring no to me.