Re: Icon Love (long-ish)

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> 
> Alex Larsson wrote:
> 
> > Why didn't anyone comment on my suggestion to use 1->9 and 9->1 instead.
> > It seems that this would solve the issue for everyone.
> 
> Another alternative I've seen that implies neither alphabetical or
> numerical sort is to use an icon showing three shapes in
> ascending/descending size, e.g:
> 
> . o O   for "ascending sort", and
> ----->
> 
> O o .   for "descending sort"
> <----
> 
> (The arrow is necessary for locales where people don't interpret things
> naturally from left to right.)

?? shouldn't the second arrow go left-to-right as well then?

-Bill