Ah, the old debate of “display current state” vs “display current action”…
I can assuredly tell you I do not.
“Press this button to do this”
Yes I understand that but in most software they don’t have seperate play and pause buttons but rather only one which swaps symbols when you click and so for me when I want to know whether it is currently playing I just look at the button.
You should know that you don’t just look at the play/pause button to just know the file is playing, you can know the playing status from other UI elements, for example, status bar (“playing example.file”, “pause”, “stop”), progress bar, timer and others… Right?
I think this only applies if the two actions occupy the same space, and change when pressed? If I saw a separate play and pause button, I’d assume play means play and pause meant pause. If I saw only one button for play, I’d probably assume it was currently paused/stopped.
My bad, I should have been more specific in my post. I was talking in the context of software which in most music players has the pause and play buttons occupying the same space. On physical devices such as dvd player I obviously consider the pause button as “to pause” and the play button as “to play”
That’s a result of devs using the “pause” icon to indicate “paused”. And when people tap on the “paused” icon to “play” something, it becomes associated with that.
Blame the UI devs who messed this up.
Thanks for the insight, ElPussyKangaroo
You’re welcome, floridaman.
Florida Man caught thanking kangaroos in the vulva received recognition on fediverse.
I’m still shocked at what the hell I just read but it was pretty wholesome.
Florida Man caught thanking kangaroos in the vulva
received recognitionon fediverse.🌚
Tell me you’re Gen Z or Alpha without telling me you’re Gen Z or Alpha.
I don’t think we all do.
Someone here didn’t record their favourite songs onto a cassette when the radio played them
I hate to break it to you, but we’re too old. The kids don’t know what cassettes are.
proceeds to cry in a corner
They’ll start calling us cassettes as slang for old farts
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What would you know? Vcd
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Lol omg that’s even worse
Sup, Floppy drive.
Sup, turntable
Sup, Marconi radio
Sup, AWA
Okay, here’s where I lose you. What’s AWA?
Definitely not most people, perhaps most people in the youngest generations, but they still do not constitute a majority. In the future possibly, but there are still plenty of people who either still have sound playing equipment with buttons with those symbols on them or have recent memories of owning and operating such gadgets.
What would be the reason? Most media players I use like vlc which is well known has the play as the triangle and pause as ||. Same with YouTube.
They’re not wrong
