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Most of the time toggles are done poorly in that I can’t tell if they are on or off. There’s no consensus on if that is left or right. Or lit up or darkened. It is maddening.

In my opinion the right way to do toggles is to have area below it that is either enabled / expanded for On or grayed out / collapsed for Off. That way I can also read what the toggle implies. I suppose that can be done in mouse over if there are space constraints.




Or just use a labeled toggle. "On" and "off" are both very short words, take hardly any space, and remove ambiguity. No reason not to use them.


15 and 17 characters when translated to German or whatever. The best layouted plans of mice and men gang aft i18n-ly.


"yes" and "no" are short in just about every language I know of


I bet unicode already has codepoints for 'on' and 'off'


Oops, I didn't mean to imply a particular interface widget. Should have said "setting" (not necessarily binary, either).




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