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When in doubt, use the real-world for a guideline. In this case, road signs provide a perfect metaphor. In the case of street signs, arrows pointing to the righ
by nickb 18y ago
When in doubt, use the real-world for a guideline. In this case, road signs provide a perfect metaphor. In the case of street signs, arrows pointing to the right are always positioned after the text and arrows pointing to the left are positioned before the text. In the case of links, these little chevrons or triangles almost always point to the right so it's natural to position them after the link text.
- litewulf 18y agoYes, but what about back links? I have a site that's "You have done blah. Want to return to previous blah?" Now where do I put that previous arrow? (Its made more annoying because I have lots of parallel "You are viewing an old version. Check out the newest version >>", so we want to stick an arrow in for visual similarity... but its confusing.)
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- litewulf 18y agoSorry I must have explained things poorly. There are lots of little blurbs "X happened, would you like to go look?". Sometimes that go look is a backwards motion and sometimes its forward. "X happened, « would you like to go back" looks really strange.