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Posted by William Gill on March 26, 2008, 6:43 pm
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Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> [ ] You may pass my contact info to advertizers.
>
> where an explicit permission by the user is required anyway (assuming we
> want to act morally and, in many countries, by the law).
Perfect example of what I mean. I want explicit permission, not a
default "I'll assume it's OK unless you tell me no."
> Well, it looks odd when CSS is off. To begin with, the text precedes the
> button, against the de facto standard, and the text looks odd. Remember
> the CSS Caveats.
>
> But if you write the entry in a manner that makes sense when presented
> to the user, e.g.
>
> <div style="visibility:hidden"><label><input name="Permission"
> type="radio" value="Huh!" checked >Not answered yet</label></div>
>
> then I don't see any _big_ problems with it. But it would probably be
> better without the CSS code for hiding it.
So if I'm careful how I word it for cases when CSS is off, then use CSS
to hide it when possible. I'm no worse off than if I just phrased the
default option clearly, but didn't try to hide it.
>
>> I realize that once they check either one of the visible options they
>> can't get back to the default, but that's really what I want.
>
> What if they make a choice, then realize that they don't really
> understand the question or definitely don't want to answer? They have
> the option of not submitting the form at all. Do you want to give them
> also the option of submitting it with some part intentionally left
> unfilled, perhaps with some explanation given by them in a textarea?
I had thought about that "tar baby effect" (once you select one of the
visible choices you are stuck with one or the other), but if they MUST
decide, why not.
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