Re: [Usability] Button Layout in Dialogs, vertical button bar on the right?

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

A couple of things I should have mentioned ...

Matthew Thomas wrote:
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> ...
> > I have long wondered if user interface designs get flipped around to
> > accomodate the writing direction of the local culture.  My suspicion is
> > that this doesn't happen and that there is not much infrastructure in
> > place to make it easy to do this kind of systematic rearraranging.

In what appears to be descending order of quality:
<http://flaminggeeks.com/k/blog/images/ar98.gif>
<http://www.aymanh.com/images/firefox10ar-win-02.jpg>
<http://www.arabeyes.org/images/screenshots/katoob/katoob-ar.png>

(As you can see from the Firefox screenshot, sometimes you need to 
reverse the icons, not just the layout.)

> > The layout with buttons on the right hand side seems to make better 
> > use of the available screen width.
>
> That's true, but the usual horizontal arrangement makes better use of
> screen *space*. Because buttons are shorter than they are wide, the
> unused space in a column of buttons is more than the unused space in a
> row of buttons.
> ...

Sorry, I should have said "Because buttons are wider than they are high..."

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Matthew Thomas
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