Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok
I briefly managed a team where the two senior developers were in the middle of a style war. Half the team was K&R the other OTBS. And half the UI was Ok-Cancel and the other half Cancel-Ok.<p>Years ago, we had a critical for a “company saving trade show demo” setup on an early version of Windows NT.  There was a server fault and when we brought it back up there was a glitch. No matter what we did the system kept presenting us with a modal warning that proceeding would probably destroy the data on the hard drive. The choices where Ok and Continue. After several calls to MS we finally called our partners and GE was able to back channel us to the developer who wrote the modal who told us “Continue” was the safe option.  At least he admitted it wasn’t the best way of presenting “do it” or “skip this step” options.<p>Personally, I’m firmly in the Cancel —- “verb the thing” camp these days.