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what is better concerning user intuitive usage?
OK...Cancel or Cancel...OK in a Dialog Window?
edit:
arghhhh I stepped in a trap :P
seems some user misunderstood me...
I do not mean having OK and Cancel on the left/right side of the dialog.
what I mean is should the OK button be right-handed to the Cancel button or other way round?
Thats what I meant actually :)
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So 'Cancel' is always on the right of OK button for Windows platform. Apple MacOS Guidelines says that “A button that initiates an action is furthest to the right.
In most languages, people are accustomed to read from left side to right side, so it accords with our speech habits to put ok-key on the left side of cancel-key.
This button placement works because it maps to the user's left-to-right reading and navigating direction, where right is the direction to progress and left is the direction to regress.
Cancel is a button or option that lets you exit a program or dialog box and not save any of the changes made.
Neither. "OK" and "Cancel" are particularly poor choices for dialog buttons. Dialog buttons should really be labelled with the actions that each button will perform - e.g.
Do you want to save this unsaved file before exiting the application?
[Save] [Don't Save] [Don't Exit]
And, in either case, I would suggest ordering from left-to-right in order of 'most likely', so in my example, I'm assuming Saving is the most likely choice, followed by exiting without saving, followed by not exiting. This is most intuitive for a left-to-right language, since the user will most likely get to their preferred choice soonest, but other language directions will differ.
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