I really wish tumblrs, blogs, news aggregators, etc., would come to some agreement as to whether "going further back in time" goes to the left or to the right, damn it.
And! Some of them have decided that 'previous' means 'things that were published earlier,' and others have decided that 'previous' means 'pages I've already loaded.'
[Rant warning. Heh.] I know! It's something I actually spend time thinking about, when I'm building websites. I always go back in time to the left, and forward in time to the right. And then there's the question of how you word the links. Depends on the nature of the site for me, usually it's "newer posts" (or articles, or whatever) and "older posts." ("Next" and "Previous" can be confusing.) Occasionally I'll make the link text the title of the article being linked to.
It's an issue that's important! Websites should be intuitive; the behavior transparent. I'm sure there are exceptions, but not nearly as many as some preciously artsy designers seem to think. ;-D
This is something i've only noticed in the last, oh, six or eight months. I don't know what that means -- did some prior set of conventions just break down for some reason?
Not so sure about the left-right part, but the previous-next issue has been a matter of discussion amongst WordPress developers for quite a while. I've been rolling my own, as it were, for a long time in WP, so I'm honestly not even sure what the default theme does these days, but back in the day, the default was to use "previous" and "next" and the way they used the terms was counter-intuitive. If you start reading at the most recent post and work your way back, then the "next" post that you want to read is the one that was posted "previous"-ly. So... which is which???
Yes! Every. Single. Time. I reached the bottom of the page and wanted to continue, I had to stop and think and do the 'hover over it and check where it goes' thing and sometimes click the wrong one and then go back and redirect myself. Total fail!
Now, though, I sort of wish I'd bookmarked it or screencapped it, so I could post it here as proof. :D
OH MY GOD ME TOO. Gmail and my work email use opposite arrows also (no words, just triangles) and I USE GMAIL FOR WORK APPLICATIONS (because: shared gdocs and cals), so I have them both open all the time. HAAAAAAAATE.
Yes, this! Or when the "next-previous" buttons are practically hidden because the design decided they needed to be tiny and close to the top of the page only? *eye twitches*
I like it when "go back in time" is on the bottom and "go forward in time" is on the top. (Go Forward In Time is a bossy jerk if you try to make him bottom.)
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Date: 10/24/11 02:47 am (UTC)It's an issue that's important! Websites should be intuitive; the behavior transparent. I'm sure there are exceptions, but not nearly as many as some preciously artsy designers seem to think. ;-D
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Date: 10/24/11 03:03 am (UTC)The worst I ever encountered was a blog where the blogger's design choice had self-selected text instead of "go back" and "go forward".
The text? Well, for 'go forward' it had something with the word "backward" in it. *facepalming x1000*
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Date: 10/27/11 06:53 am (UTC)Now, though, I sort of wish I'd bookmarked it or screencapped it, so I could post it here as proof. :D
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Date: 10/24/11 09:08 am (UTC)Apps like twitter also annoy me, because the natural (to me) method of reading an updating list: new things added at the bottom, is exactly reversed.
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