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: Donald Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:48:17 -0500
Have to disagree. There is a tendancy by people to just blindly hit return.
If it's important enough to get another chance to reconsider the decision,
they should have to actually reconsider it. This is doubly true for
particularly dangerous actions. The default for "OK to format hard disk"
should ALWAYS be cancel.
Donald
on 10/15/02 7:12 AM, Ondra Cada at email@hidden wrote:
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On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 08:15 , Wade Tregaskis wrote:
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> The default button should be whichever one the developer feels is the
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> 'safest'
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*W*R*O*N*G*! (sorry for the asterisks, but this is *important*).
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That's the triple stupid productivity-killing windoze or OS9 way.
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The default button should *always* be the *the most probable user's
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response*. Like, if you wanted to delete something, you obviously wanted
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to delete it -- the dialog is just another chance to reconsider the
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decision --, so the default should be Delete (*not* Cancel).
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Ondra Cada
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