Talk:Radio button

message: Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Oppose radio button is more common. 132.205.93.33 01:39, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: No idea what this section is about or what it is doing there. I think it could just be deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.9.47.220 (talk) 13:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, I've removed it. -- Bovineone 07:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting the "See also" section 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Radiobuttons.png

message: Techies forget that a lot of people who use Wikipedia aren't. What with internet radio these days, would you blame some Serbian grandmother in Wisconsin for thinking that this is how she might once again hum to the sweet folk songs of her youth? Alas, this 'radio button' will not take her back to the green fields of home. So I have added a sentence close to start of article to disenchant anyone with similar misconceptions. I DO wish editors, especially techies, would adopt my dictum of writing as if that Serbian grandmother in Wisconsin was representative of their audience. Myles325a (talk) 00:37, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This radio button does not operate a radio 

message: I certainly remember push-button radios, but the radio buttons in a user interface are round, whereas the push-buttons in car radios were flat.  I have always thought the term came from the plug-in radio sets of the 1940s and 1950s that had buttons for selecting a band (AM, FM, or sometimes shortwave bands) and sometimes for selecting tone (high or low).  These buttons were round, and looked a lot like the buttons in the UI. Edgy4 (talk) 05:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the photo of the right kind of radio button? 

message: Any idea where the name "radio button" comes from? --24.82.156.18 (talk) 16:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: "Radio buttons" is commonly used to describe such buttons, whether graphical on a computer, or physical. For example: the physical buttons on my dishwasher.
So I think the article should begin something like:
Radio buttons are a group of (usually similar) buttons, either physical, or graphical (for example on a computer screen) of which exactly one can and must be selected at any given time. Selecting a second button will cancel the first.  Sometimes the rule "exactly one" is replaced with "at most one".  Whether these are also radio buttons is controversial.
The expression derives from the buttons used in older car radios to select amongst pre-set stations. The technical description for such physical buttons is "ganged", specifically 
"ganged push buttons".  Hence "radio buttons" is arguably a synonym for that longer expression.
The gui explanation should be a subsection.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antifesto (talk • contribs) 00:02, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I also agree. Came here for the real buttons not for their virtual representation in GUIs. JB. --92.193.147.191 (talk) 18:42, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  computer bias 

message: I know the term "radio button". I remember reading about in Turbo Vision programming guides when I write some Pascal code in the 1990s, and these days it appears, for example, in the HTML specification. The latter is pretty authoritative and up to date.
However, this article also mentions "option button". This pops up on hundreds of thousands of websites, but I cannot clearly see an authoritative source. Does it appear as the "official" name in any glossary of computer terms or in a programming reference of any UI development library? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:00, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for "option button" 

message: At #Unicode maybe also mention the ○, ● pair (which might toggle colors when seen in reverse video, so one shouldn't say e.g.,"click the black one"!) Jidanni (talk) 00:43, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode  ○ ● 

message: Two comments:
1. The original mechanical buttons on old radios were there to choose the wave-length (long wave, short wave(s), ultra-short wave) often represented as modulation (AM - amplitude modulation, FM - frequency modulation). What you could NOT do at that time was to choose a preseleted station (as is currently stated in the article). Decades later and almost exclusively for FM there was a short time when that was actually possible but almost immediatedly superseeded by electronic station switching via sensor keys since the mechanics were quite expensive, large and finicky. The image shown also shows a selection per wavelength not per station.
2. I suggest to rename the caption from Ethymology to History.
JB. --92.193.147.191 (talk) 18:42, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History