A piece that seems to be missing from this discussion is the context. Is your application a financial application in which a negative number is (potentially) a bad thing (thus the red=error pattern) or is it some other application?
The domain I support is chemistry and we deal with negative numbers all the time. The thing is, in the world of our customers a negative number isn't necessarily bad or some type of error condition. We reserve the red treatment for error messages or conditions (the whole number, positive or negative might be red if outside or the defined limits) so we go with the simple "-" to denote negative numbers. We don't use " " for positives and don't use paranthesis at all. Hope this helps. Pam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28049 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
