Re: Xcode's Find in Project
Re: Xcode's Find in Project
- Subject: Re: Xcode's Find in Project
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:30:41 -0500
On Feb 19, 2007, at 6:53 PM, John Daniel wrote:
On Feb 19, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
So, yes, I call it the "Apple key".
Yes, I figured that's why you call it that. But a *real* Mac
developer ;-) knows the correct term and uses it instead of
calling it what someone who doesn't even use a Mac would call it.
From the most recent version of the Apple Style Guide:
I could care less what Apple wants me to call it. When I'm trying
to tell a customer what key to press, I'm not going to bother
trying to explain what the Command key is. It is the Apple key.
We aren't your customers, and I've never had a significant problem
calling it the Command key when talking to customers. That's how
written documentation refers to it -- including magazine articles, so
if I have to spend five seconds explaining what the Command key is I
might have just done the user a favor the next time he reads
something about the Command key. Pandering to people's ignorance in
such a matters doesn't really help them in the long run.
But thanks for the Unicode reference. I'll remember that for
documentation - "To print type ⌘P (Apple P)"
You really aren't helping anyone by being stubborn. Keep in mind that
people often use non-Apple keyboards, and those don't have an Apple
symbol on them. How helpful do you think it is if your customer has
to contact you to ask which key is the Apple key since no key on his
keyboard has an Apple symbol on it? So you're telling me you're going
to ignore Apple's guidelines to write documentation that reads
differently than almost everything out there and refers to a symbol
many people don't have on their keyboards. You are a perfect example
of what concerns me about people coming from Unix and Windows to
develop Mac software without regard to established Mac practices.
Larry _______________________________________________
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