Subject: Re: Word count nitpicks
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 13:53:28 CST
> I must be missing something here. Under the apple menu on a Mac 7.5.x
> system, the first menu item is:
>
> About This Macintosh...
>
> If you ask me, that's a pretty compelling precedent. Even simple dialogs
> get dots.
I knew someone would bring this up. The about dialogs on Macs have ...'s
even though according to the spec they shouldn't. If you ask me, having
the ... for anything that brings up a dialog is fine, I was just wondering
whether Abi had standardized on a meaning for the three dots.
> Paul
>
> PS: Folks who've carefully studied how Apple's HI guidelines usually get
> interpreted are free to show me what I've missed here, if anything. AFAIK,
> the menu action of raising those dialogs isn't completed until the dialog
> goes away, and that usually "requires human intervention", no?
>
>
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