Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken...
by davepeck on Sunday June 28, 2009 @09:39PM
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Cool, good to hear this, and I was hoping to have discussion about the toggle controls.
There are only two toggleable options on the entire site that would be better served by a combobox. The rest are binary. The two in question both appear on the sign-up page and both are rarely used (based on the site statistics.) Therefore I opted for the less "correct" (and less usable) but more visually consistent option.
If all you're doing is spinning those two options around to test the site, then yes it certainly could be annoying. But my hunch is that for the average use case, it's just not a big deal...
There are only two toggleable options on the entire site that would be better served by a combobox. The rest are binary. The two in question both appear on the sign-up page and both are rarely used (based on the site statistics.) Therefore I opted for the less "correct" (and less usable) but more visually consistent option.
If all you're doing is spinning those two options around to test the site, then yes it certainly could be annoying. But my hunch is that for the average use case, it's just not a big deal...