Pager design wording

[erin yu]

Hi Harriet,

Gmail uses "< Newer" and "Older >", and I think this works nicely.
They use "<< Newest" and "Oldest >>" for first and last pages.

Erin

On 28-May-08, at 11:59 AM, Harriet Truscott wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have gone with the Fluid pager design for our MySakai widgets.
>
> However, one of the University's usability specialists says about a  
> widget
> that lists recent activity on your sites
>
>> Is the logic of the "previous" and "next" buttons on the
>> 'recent activity' pane the wrong way around?
>>
>> Given that this list should show most recent first, the "next"
>> willl be earlier in time - which is also "previous"! It might
>> be better to say "earlier" and "later" to name those buttons
>> less ambiguously
>
> I like 'earlier' - I think perhaps that 'more recent' might be  
> better than
> 'later', alhtough
>
> What do people think to this, and would you contemplate making an  
> official
> Fluid suggestion for this context?
>
> Harriet
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