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: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:14:29 +0200
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 10:42 , Ondra Cada wrote:
As if it was acceptable to have a destructive, non-undoable default
choice in an alert.
Which it *definitely* is.
Also in this context it should be pointed out that if the operation is
non-destructive or undoable, no alert would ever occur.
Therefore, alerts of this kind occur *only* with desctructive non-undoable
operations, and naturally they should have a default choice of *do that*
(formulated more precisely, like "Delete", "Remove", "Format", "Crash",
"Burn", "Maim", "Kill" ;))) -- since that's precisely what the user
*WANTED TO* originating the appropriate operation.
In other words, if you push a rational desire to be safe so far as to have
kitchen knives blunted, the rational would turn to crazy, for the
hindrance would become unbearable. Moreover, being thus forced to focus to
the crippled UI rather than to the particular task, the danger of making a
nasty error actually increases.
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Ondra Cada
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