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- From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
- Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.001916.12861@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:19:16 GMT
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- antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns) writes:
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- >I'm annoyed. Darn annoyed. First one upgrade, then another after another has switched to the 'Save/Don't save' form of standard dialog box, replacing
- >the simple, clear, 'Yes/No/Cancel.' So at first I had a special Quickey
- >for just those buttons...but then I discovered that SOME developers use
- >'Don't Save' (the S capitalized), some use the smart quote apostrophe...as
- >a result I have about six Quickeys that do one function--tell the Mac
- >that NO, I do not want to save anything. Wouldn't a simple 'No' have
- >sufficed? This is one place where the Apple User interface gurus have
- >overthought this one, big time. Just say 'No'!
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- I didn't like that change at first, but now I really hate the old style!
- If the buttons read "Save"/"Don't Save", then I can quickly look at the
- buttons and decide what to do, if it reads "Yes"/"No", I have to
- scan the entire alert *and* make the decision as to exactly what yes and
- no mean. Few things bother me more than a dialog that reads "Ok to ignore
- changes"? "Yes"/"no" (The game Risk comes to mind)
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