Re: dropdown selections: default values or no?

Juan Lanus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.chi-web
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On 6/1/07, Hal Shubin <[email protected]> wrote:
> But maybe the metaphor isn't a good one anymore.

The methafor is good. Only it is a methafor, not a rule cast in iron.

There are many situations when having no selected button is valuable.
For example in the "accept license" forms. Or in gender questions that
some people do not want to answer.

Anne Deputter wrote:
> But for my specific problem :  radio buttons will take two lines.  Our forms are already long.

Anne, you might want to consider setting both options in the same
line, something like this
Accept the license? [o] yes [o] no

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Juan Lanus

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