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A comment on Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn... by vinay427 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:26AM (#34438764)
The UK and many ex-colonies that also maintain plug/outlet switches seem to generally use down for on, while the US/Canada/Central Europe often use up for on.

Especially annoying are the posh toggles, unnecessarily popular in some European countries (e.g. CH) that don’t have any physical indicator of on-off status.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn... by michaelscott on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:12AM (#34439490)
The lack of any affordance whatsoever on buttons, switches and appliances in Switzerland drives me absolutely insane
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Re:Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn... by Digit-Al on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:28AM (#34440016)
This becomes confounded if you have multiple switches for the same light though.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn... by scotty79 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:05AM (#34441045)
Maybe they should be installed sideways.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn... by kortex on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:26AM (#34442062)
Here in USA, single-gang switches have "on" and "off" embossed on the switch, so the state is shown based on the position (oriented up is on). Multi-gang switches have no embossing.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn... by vinay427 on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:53AM (#34450548)
It’s fine for multi-way switches, and probably even better than confounded switches, but as I mentioned they’re unnecessarily common which in this case means that they’re often used (at least in some settings in CH) for single-switch setups as well. For instance, my apartment had around 8-10 push switches of this type, with only 1 that was a three-way switch.
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