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radio buttons are skeuomorphic and much easier to understand how to operate and get the result you want. Slider toggles are pure fashion and skeuomorphic only i

radio buttons are skeuomorphic and much easier to understand how to operate and get the result you want. Slider toggles are pure fashion and skeuomorphic only in that they are as difficult to use as some recessed sliders are, but without a skeuomorphic fingernail to grab them. There are physical things that are difficult to operate irl, and there's no reason to skeuomorph difficult things to use. but even better, what's wrong with letting me choose what I want? You can have whatever UI you like, it doesn't need to affect me. That's the whole idea behind a personal computer, it's my slave, it's my servant, it does what I want, to make my life the way I want it. Software is the first human technology to offer this promise, it's only the weak of mind, ego and will who see it as a way to impose their stunted vision on other people.

kazinator 4y ago
Slider toggles are skeumorphic in that there are such physical switches and they look like those switches. Those classic radio buttons which are circles with a black dot are skeumorphic in the same sense that checkboxes are: they are an imitation of elements seen on paper forms. You don't have to "grab" slider controls; if you just click anywhere in their display area to toggle them. E.g. try an example here: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_switch.asp https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_switch.asp The sliding is just an animation sequence which replaces the appearance/disappearance of the checkbox with alternative images. In the above example, you in fact cannot grab anything and slide it left to right. All you can do is click. If you're confronted with some UI in which you have to actually pull a slider left or right and cannot just click on it, complain to the vendor.
kazinator 4y ago
Your idea behind the personal computer unfortunately no longer exists outside of the world of FOSS. A device with a proprietary OS is now not really yours. It's something that you depend on for access to essential services and which you got for a deeply discounted price in exchange for giving up control, personal information, privacy and access to your eyes and ears by advertisers.

kazinator 4y ago

Slider toggles are skeumorphic in that there are such physical switches and they look like those switches. Those classic radio buttons which are circles with a black dot are skeumorphic in the same sense that checkboxes are: they are an imitation of elements seen on paper forms. You don't have to "grab" slider controls; if you just click anywhere in their display area to toggle them. E.g. try an example here: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_switch.asp https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_switch.asp The sliding is just an animation sequence which replaces the appearance/disappearance of the checkbox with alternative images. In the above example, you in fact cannot grab anything and slide it left to right. All you can do is click. If you're confronted with some UI in which you have to actually pull a slider left or right and cannot just click on it, complain to the vendor.

kazinator 4y ago

Your idea behind the personal computer unfortunately no longer exists outside of the world of FOSS. A device with a proprietary OS is now not really yours. It's something that you depend on for access to essential services and which you got for a deeply discounted price in exchange for giving up control, personal information, privacy and access to your eyes and ears by advertisers.