[IxDA Discuss] 2 part button - industry standard?

[Pankaj Chawla]

On 3/26/08, Brett Ingram <bingram at pandora.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Check out the "Add To Wish List" button at Amazon.com. It consists of
> 2 parts that can be clicked on. Does anyone if this has become some
> kind of "industry standard"? Also, any ideas where this kind of
> button first originated?
>
> It doesn't seem very common to me. It doesn't seem particularly
> usable either, since it isn't that clear that there are 2 parts of
> the button that can be clicked.


Hi Brett,

Its a fairly common button type in the desktop applications world whenever
you want to give the user an option for a default step and an option list to
pick a custom step.
Infact this button is also there for the Back/Forward functionality in both
IE and Netscape and hence anybody browsing the web will mostly know
about this.

Cheers
Pankaj