Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites

• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The disagreement was actually all over whether the question was about a switch or a button, and so some people were answering as though it was a switch, and some people were answering as though it was a button - switches and buttons do indeed have opposite approaches usually (a switch usually shows the current state - such as “on” - but a button shows what action will be triggered by pressing it, such as “play”).

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  • jadero@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oops! I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention.

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s ok - a lot of people weren’t.

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• starman@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a thread elsewhere asking whether a toggle should show current state or the state desired.

  there it is

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• snowe@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  that post is about toggle buttons, not switches. e.g. a play pause button, when pressed, does it show play, or does it show pause?

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  • jadero@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oops! I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention.

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    • snowe@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      still, people are clearly confused by the button. I’m just gonna make it an animation and prefers-color-scheme since that’s so widely supported now.

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• nitefox@sh.itjust.works [bot] ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The designer team once did a toggle button with the inverse logic and I was so confused when I had to implement that. It must be my antithesis.

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It really depends on the type of control and what it’s controlling. As this is a switch, you’d expect the current state to be what’s shown on the same side as the slider-- in this case, the slider is a sun in dark mode and a moon in light mode, which is the opposite way.

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