I have a quick question about buttons that toggle between two states. (Think Play/Pause, or Shuffle/Regular Play.) As the title says, should the toggle show it's current state or the state to which...
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Why is this 13 year old stack overflow question being reposted

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Weird, but I found it a super interesting read. It made me think of Home Assistant as one of the only software that I could think of that uses a toggle button from the top of my head. I think it handles these states wonderfully.

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Edit: The big one I rarely see. But, either one seems quite intuitive.

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That’s fair, I use toggles somewhat regularly in web dev and semantic ui has nice styling for them. Not as fancy as home assistant though, those are very clear!

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Right?!? I find their design to be some of the best I’ve seen. Even against proprietary software.

Didn’t you get the memo? We’re doing away with privately-owned platforms and starting fresh in the Fediverse :-)

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