My favorite part of this is that the single-choice circular option control is (or used to be) called a “radio button”. I wonder what fraction of people today have any idea why it’s called that. I guess we’re lucky it’s not called a “light switch button” since it’s been 80+ years since light switches were like that.
Ask me about the “high beam switch” lol.
High beam switch on the floor is superior to all other high beam arrangements. Got a '98 truck and have seriously considered putting it there, shouldn’t be that hard to do.
In case anyone cares, those are called radio buttons.
Aptly named because they are circles and therefore have a radius!
Honestly I don’t remember why they are called that, I just remember from when I had to add them in HTML back in middle school. The damnedest things stick with you.
because they behave like the buttons on a radio.
Although technically correct, that’s not much of an explanation with modern radios.
i mean, the most common radios still worked like that when modern uis were being developed, and they did user studies to figure out what people would understand.
try tracing back the lineage of the “hamburger menu”
Oh, I completely understand. It’s just one of the things that’s a relic today and will be weird for the generation that grows up today. Just like the floppy disk symbol for saving or the folder icon for loading.
The third option seems appropriate. After installing McAfee, my PC got infected by McAfee :P
Not McAfee, but in the early 2000s I came home and found that Norton had decided that everything in C:\Windows was a virus.
Well, it wasn’t wrong.
