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View Revisions: Issue #2289

Summary 0002289: UI inconsistency - don't use no double negatives!
Revision 2015-11-14 21:06 by Dave Higton
Description The RISC OS content config window has checkboxes for
'Hide advertisements', 'Disable pop-up windows' and 'Disable Javascript'.
So you have to turn a checkbox /on/ to turn something /off/. That's a double negative, which is confusing UI design.
Please reverse the sense of the checkboxes and adjust their names accordingly.

Show advertisements (default off, I expect)
Allow pop-ups (default off, I guess)
Enable Javascript (default on, I presume)

There may be other inverted config settings here and there (I also saw 'Disable animations', which should be 'Allow animations'. Always phrase things as a positive action, please, never a double negative.

May apply to other platforms.

Revision 2015-03-15 00:22 by Vincent Sanders
Description The RISC OS content config window has checkboxes for
'Hide advertisements', 'Disable pop-up windows' and 'Disable Javascript'.
So you have to turn a checkbox /on/ to turn something /off/. That's a double negative, which is confusing UI design.
Please reverse the sense of the checkboxes and adjust their names accordingly.

Show advertisements (default off, I expect)
Allow pop-ups (default off, I guess)
Enable Javascript (default on, I presume)

There may be other inverted config settings here and there (I also saw 'Disable animations', which should be 'Allow animations'. Always phrase things as a positive action, please, never a double negative.

May apply to other platforms.

Revision 2015-03-15 00:01 by Simon Smith
Description The RISC OS content config window has checkboxes for
'Hide advertisements', 'Disable pop-up windows' and 'Disable Javascript'.
So you have to turn a checkbox /on/ to turn something /off/. That's a double negative, which is confusing UI design.
Please reverse the sense of the checkboxes and adjust their names accordingly.

Show advertisements (default off, I expect)
Allow pop-ups (default off, I guess)
Enable Javascript (default on, I presume)

There may be other inverted config settings here and there (I also saw 'Disable animations', which should be 'Allow animations'. Always phrase things as a positive action, please, never a double negative.

May apply to other platforms.