Comments on: That Evil Default Button http://polytropia.com/musings/2005/08/that_evil_default_button/ Unsolicited commentary on that odyssey called geek life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Jochen Wolters http://polytropia.com/musings/2005/08/that_evil_default_button/#comment-1514 Jochen Wolters Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:50:06 +0000 http://polytropia.com/musings/2005/08/that_evil_default_button/#comment-1514 <p>Daniel:</p> <p>I agree that Undo is the best safeguard against user error or user change-of-mind. However, that is exactly why I would advocate for changing the default button in that Mail deletion dialog, because this dialog appears at a step beyond which Undo is no longer available. But I concede to being annoyingly fussy in that regard... <g></g></p> Daniel:

I agree that Undo is the best safeguard against user error or user change-of-mind. However, that is exactly why I would advocate for changing the default button in that Mail deletion dialog, because this dialog appears at a step beyond which Undo is no longer available. But I concede to being annoyingly fussy in that regard…

]]> By: Daniel J. Wilson http://polytropia.com/musings/2005/08/that_evil_default_button/#comment-1513 Daniel J. Wilson Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:01:21 +0000 http://polytropia.com/musings/2005/08/that_evil_default_button/#comment-1513 <p>The buttons on Mail's spam deletion confirmation dialog definitely should be relabeled, but I think the dialog itself is enough of a failsafe that making Erase the default would be acceptable.</p> <p>Ideally, a lot of these confirmation dialogs should be replaced by Undo support.</p> The buttons on Mail’s spam deletion confirmation dialog definitely should be relabeled, but I think the dialog itself is enough of a failsafe that making Erase the default would be acceptable.

Ideally, a lot of these confirmation dialogs should be replaced by Undo support.

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