A great example of why not to use ‘cancel’ and ‘OK’ in dialogs. I read ‘Cancel editing this post?’ and I say ‘Yes, I want to cancel’, so I click ‘Cancel’, which cancels the dialog itself. ‘OK’ doesn’t even fit at all, but it is the way to correctly ‘cancel editing’. I’m pointing this out not to point out a flaw in Tumblr (and there are more effective ways to report a bug than this), but a flaw that is common in almost all web-based editors, whether Wordpress, Blogger, and now Tumblr.

A great example of why not to use ‘cancel’ and ‘OK’ in dialogs. I read ‘Cancel editing this post?’ and I say ‘Yes, I want to cancel’, so I click ‘Cancel’, which cancels the dialog itself. ‘OK’ doesn’t even fit at all, but it is the way to correctly ‘cancel editing’.

I’m pointing this out not to point out a flaw in Tumblr (and there are more effective ways to report a bug than this), but a flaw that is common in almost all web-based editors, whether Wordpress, Blogger, and now Tumblr.

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