Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:03:36 GMT
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In article <antjcb.728085176@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
(J.C.Burns) wrote:
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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'!
>
> --jcburns
The reason why we made this change was because some applications asked a
question positively while others would ask it negatively: "Do you want to
save your changes?" versus "Do you want to throw away your changes?" "Yes"
and "No" have opposite meanings for these two questions. There would be a
good chance that people who go blazing through dialogs (like me) will hit
the wrong button. By using "Save" and "Don't save", it's very clear what
action will happen when you click these buttons, so you don't have to read