Re: radio buttons

[Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:11:03PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> Chris Elston wrote:
> > The value that the radio buttons are supposed to represent is optional but
> > if selected has one of three values.  Therefore, I'd like to begin the
> > list unchecked so that the user can opt not to check any.
>
> In this case, from a usability point of view, a fourth radio button that
> indicated "none of the above" is probably a better solution.  As well as
> just looking odd, groups where "none selected" is a valid state offer
> the user no obvious way to get back to that state after they've selected
> one of the buttons.  

i think clicking the currently toggled radio button is fairly obvious.

> They also potentially interfere with keyboard navigation, since when

This can be solved, just like we have keyboard nav for all other widgets.
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