[plt-dev] why "next" on the left of "prev"

From: Felix Klock's PLT scheme proxy (pltscheme at pnkfx.org)
Date: Tue May 5 16:48:12 EDT 2009

On May 5, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Chongkai Zhu wrote:

> As titled, in the search bar of DrScheme, the "next" bottom is on  
> the left of "prev" bottom. That's unintuitive. Should they exchange  
> place?

I would not want to have to move my mouse over the "prev" button to  
get to the "next" button.

I agree that the order may be unintuitive; Safari handles this problem  
by laying out the "prev"/"next" buttons to the *left* of the search  
term.  Just something to consider.

-Felix






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