Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- From: "Clark S. Cox III" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:39:26 -0400
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On Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at 16:15 US/Eastern, Jens Bauer wrote:
Hi Phillip,
On Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at 21:21 Europe/Copenhagen, Phillip Hutchings
wrote:
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The MacOS X system is to have the default on the right. Having the
default not on the right would make the interface look more like
windows in my opinion, and I'm pretty sure it's against the HIG.
I'd like to have someone from Apple confirming this.
This is copied verbatim from page 148 of the Aqua Human Interface
Guidlines: "The default button for dismissing a dialog should go in the
lower-right corner."
If I have a Cancel button and an OK button in the same dialog, but
want the Cancel to be the default button, I would never swap them.
-The user would always expect the OK button to be in the same position
(far right)
I'd have to disagree, the user would expect the *default button* to be
on the right.
A good example on confusion: Aladdin's DropStuff, where the buttons
always change place, so you don't get used to their positions.
Now... It's very disturbing that they move, almost damaging my mind,
if I use it more than twice.
But DropStuff doesn't move the default button ("Register..."), only
the other two ("Not Yet" and "Purchase")
This is my opinion only, not a final confirmation. ;)
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http://homepage.mac.com/clarkcox3/
email@hidden
Clark S. Cox, III
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