Pager design wording

[Harriet Truscott]

'newer' and 'older' sounds good to me! 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: erin yu [mailto:erin.yu at utoronto.ca] 
> Sent: 28 May 2008 17:12
> To: Harriet Truscott
> Cc: fluid-work at fluidproject.org
> Subject: Re: Pager design wording 
> 
> 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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