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magic_haze on Jan 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should you use Yes/No or Ok/Cancel on your message...

Not completely unambiguous, though. I've seen plenty of software with negations in their dialog messages ("Don't delete x?") Particularly egregious with driver installations. Everything considered, buttons with actual verbs seem the most foolproof.

rhizome on Jan 7, 2013 [–]

When would someone ever need to confirm not doing something?

potatolicious on Jan 7, 2013 | [–]

Considering Windows used to have an "Error: no error" dialog somewhere, I'd leave nothing off the table...

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