Timeline for What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles and squares?
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| Jun 26 at 14:30 | comment | added | Psychonaut | @CodyGray Yes, I was referring to the Control Panel. Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding about those rounded rectangles. | |
| Jun 25 at 0:25 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @Psychonaut Which specific screenshots from that link are you referring to? If you're talking about the Control Panel, those are neither radio buttons nor checkboxes; at least, not in the traditional sense. That entire UI was custom-designed by Susan Kare to be fully graphical with no need to localize it. It doesn't use the standard window manager controls that other applications do. So those round-rects for selecting things like double-click speed aren't proper/normal radio buttons and don't establish the system style. The system did implement these, exactly as described by Inside Macintosh | |
| Jun 24 at 16:57 | comment | added | jeffB | I'll see if I can fish out my copy of Tog on Interface and see whether it sheds any light on the history. I remember him discussing a variant somewhere between checkbox and radio-button behavior, too... | |
| Jun 24 at 1:40 | comment | added | Hugh Fisher | I have the original "Inside Macintosh" Promotional Edition, AKA the "phone book", from March 1985. Page 51 shows pictures of check buttons with square outline and radio buttons with round, and the text explains the different behaviour. | |
| Jun 23 at 21:28 | comment | added | Psychonaut | Are you sure about the Mac using round radio buttons and square checkboxes? These System 1.1 screenshots from 1984 show square radio buttons (with rounded corners) but no checkboxes for comparison. | |
| Jun 23 at 21:21 | comment | added | Raffzahn | Any source for the Mac using round radio buttons and square checkboxes and distinguishing between those on a system level? I have a hard time to find any good example prior to System 6. | |
| Jun 23 at 20:00 | history | answered | jeffB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |