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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?


  • Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:41:42 +0200

On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 02:48 , Donald Brown wrote:

There is a tendancy by people to just blindly hit return

Nonsense. It is just contradiction: if a majority of alerts has Cancel default as you advocate, nobody can learn to "blindly hit return", since it would get them nowhere -- no action would be ever performed.

The default for "OK to format hard disk"
should ALWAYS be cancel

No, it should not. In such a disastrous case there should be no default button at all perhaps, but definitely *NOT* Cancel.

After all, if there truly is such a jackass who hits Enter without thinking, with your approach he'll be positively baffled: "what the heck happened? Some alert blinked and disappeared, I haven't had a chance to read what there was written: does it mean the disk is being formatted now or what?"

Also please do read an excellent answer of Andreas Mayer, Tue Oct 15, 2002 02:56:08.
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