GUI style guidelines proposal
François TOURDE
fr-om at tourde.org
Thu May 21 01:33:03 CEST 2009
Le 14384ième jour après Epoch,
Werner Almesberger écrivait:
> Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
>> It seems at least a de facto standard for cellphones is:
>> "green button" (aka OK) LEFT side
>> "red button" (aka cancel) RIGHT side
>
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where this convention comes
> from ?
Probably because:
91% humans are right-handed
So you hold your phone on the left hand, to let the right one use a pen,
click on mouse, or scratch your noze...
And you click Ok with the thumb, close to the left side of the phone.
It's just a guess ;)
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