Jon, what controls are you referring to, this should only affect

[Save] Restore all default settings (in all sections)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences/reset>

and be right aligned to the page.

Restore default settings <- Quite destructive [ Save ] <- Normal
constructive.


I agree with Steven that we could just move forward with styling first and
layout later.



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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On bug 65317 [1] it is suggested that the preferences page should have
>> buttons aligned to the right and should be ordered so constructive is
>> the last. I've written a fix for this and I would appreciate some code
>> review.
>>
>> This had me wondering, should this apply to all forms? e.g. the editing
>> form
>>
>> If so I think we probably need to get this into the style guide in
>> some form, detailing how buttons should be ordered. We may want to
>> introduce mw-ui-button-group or mw-ui-form-button-group.
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65317
>>
>
> I think before we make a decision we need to think this through, by asking
> two questions:
>
> 1. What do most users expect here, in terms of ordering? If we don't know,
> how can we learn what they do expect?
> 2. If users expect the primary action to be on the right, how would this
> change core forms other than Preferences, such as signup, login, editing
> (in wikitext and VE)?
>
> In the mean time, the simplest thing to do is not to rewrite Preferences
> to make a new divergent standard, but just update the button classes
> without mucking with the ordering. That's the minimum viable release for
> updating Preferences to match mw.ui styles. This will provide the most
> benefit with the least effort.
>
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> Product Manager
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