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Meanwhile, some other UI uses square boxes for radio buttons.

Or have a highlighted button but the enter key doesn't activate it.

Or there are three different menus all behind a different symbol (ellipsis, hamburger, kebab).

There is a lot of variance in quality. Those of you who polish your UI: you are appreciated. Truly.




I think space is usually the key that performs a click on focused buttons, not enter.


It's up to the user agent. On one platform it's the spacebar, on another it's the return key. Of course, fake controls written in JS wouldn't be able to do this. Which is why it's the wrong thing to do.


I was talking about the default button (typically blue, activated with enter), not the currently focused button (outlined, space).


Square or squircle seems to moving towards the standard for radio buttons now. Even Apple plays this game :(


File each as a bug, fight the good fight.




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