Re^2: Rearrange voting radio buttons (<label>)

In IE (v6.0), the <label> tags make absolutely no difference. However, I assume you tested your assertion in some browser so that they would provide benefit to others.

Long ago I proposed removing the "butterfly ballot" aspect of the buttons by putting the "++" and "--" labels between the buttons (which also pushes the buttons farther apart which addresses other people's concerns).

Looking critically at the current display, I find the characters are too small and too low (especially the dashes^Wminus signs) compared to the radio buttons so I'd drop the <font size="1"> and add <tt> which gives you buttons that look a bit like:

¤ ++ -- ¤ ¤ +=0

instead of the current

¤ ++ ¤ -- ¤ +=0

(Using the "currency" symbol, ¤, in place of the radio button that I can't display here.)

But I know some will find my solution strange looking so perhaps the best consesus we can expect would be to use <label>, a better font, and a bit of spacing so they look about like:

¤ ++ ¤ -- ¤ +=0

I also looked at separators (they just cluttered things up since the labels aren't words) or even

( ¤ ++ ) ( ¤ -- ) ( ¤ +=0 )

but that is probably overkill. (:

Or also do as requested:

¤ ++ ¤ +=0 ¤ --

at the top of the thread, which leaves them numerically sorted, which I like.

- tye

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Re^3: Rearrange voting radio buttons (<label>) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 22, 2003 at 15:26 UTC
In IE (v6.0), the `<label>` tags make absolutely no difference. Sigh. Mozilla works correctly. Opera probably does too, but I don't know about that. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re^2: Rearrange voting radio buttons (<label>) by Anonymous Monk on Feb 22, 2003 at 04:55 UTC
--¤ ¤ +=0 ¤ ++ ?	[reply]
Re^4: Rearrange voting radio buttons (no) by tye (Sage) on Feb 22, 2003 at 05:05 UTC
I refuse to make "downvote" the most prominent (leftmost) option when voting. And, as I said, some don't like the labels being on different sides of their buttons. What I plan to do is improve the font/label issues as I outlined above and add a new option for "null vote" (in user settings) that puts the null vote in the middle. This means that most people won't notice much of a change (just a little bit easier-to-read labels and the buttons a little bit further apart) and yet anyone can choose to have the null vote in the middle to further reduce the consequences of misclicking. - tye	[reply]
Re(5): Rearrange voting radio buttons (woot!) by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Feb 22, 2003 at 06:00 UTC
What I plan to do is improve the font/label issues as I outlined above and add a new option for "null vote" (in user settings) that puts the null vote in the middle. Thanks, tye! That's better than I was hoping for. `-- F o x t r o t U n i f o r m Found a typo in this node? /msg me The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!`	[reply]