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The Aqua HIG is incoherent.

Here are the first Menu Items in some Apple's applications:

About Mail
About the Finder
About Address Book
About Clock
About Image Capture
About Calculator

Here are the first Menu Items in some 3rd party Applications (from Mac OS Developers and not NeXT developers) and an Apple's one:

About Acrobat Reader...
About Internet Explorer...
About Windows Media Player...
About QuickTime Player...

There was an old rule saying that as soon as a Menu Item displays a Window or dialog, the Menu Item title should end with an ellipsis.

Now, in the new Aqua HIG, the rule is About <Application Names>. No ellipsis. So apps like Mail.app are just complying to the Aqua HIG.

I tend to think this new Aqua HIG rule is completely wrong and incoherent with the rest of the Interface rules.

Any other opinion on this?

BTW, when does Apple believe its own applications are going to respect some Aqua HIG like the Find Previous shortcut: Chapter 9 Page 175 Table 9-6 First line (Aqua Human Interface Guidelines)?

Mail.app is not compliant, TextEdit is not compliant, Project Builder is not compliant, Interface Builder is not compliant (Option-Command-D, it's a joke ?) and is creating non compliant applications due to the shortcut defined in the default Menu.

Must be my cold which is causing this rant mode...



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