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- From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
- Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:11:36 GMT
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- In article <antjcb.728134553@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
- (J.C.Burns) wrote:
- >
- > I didn't realize there was this epidemic of baffled people when a
- > dialog with "Yes" and "No" came up. But hey, it's not that I object
-
- The point is that Yes and No can be answers to a lot of different
- questions. If you're in a hurry, it's easy to answer the wrong question
- and lose work.
-
- > to the terms "Save" and "Don't Save"--I object to the haphazard way
- > it gets implemented by developers--because, I contend, Apple didn't
-
- I think Apple published a Human Interface Note about this. I know there
- was a lot of detail there, but perhaps it didn't emphasize the exact
- spelling enough.
-
- > For a company that makes this big a deal about interface consistency,
-
- There's 2 issues. First, Apple did change their recommendataion, which is
- why some programs use Yes/No and others use Save/Don't Save. That's a
- trade off they made between improving the interface and sticking with the
- old standard.
-
- But to a user it doesn't much matter what kind of quote is used for an
- apostrophe. You're complaint is because QuicKeys isn't smart enough to
- recognize that they are the same.
-
- Larry Rosenstein
- Taligent, Inc.
-
- lsr@taligent.com
-