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: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:26:16 -0500
Really, it's the same principle that says that if you want to delete
something via the rm -r command, you should cd into the directory that
contains the item you want to delete first, and then execute rm -r,
because if you used rm -r and typed in an absolute path with slashes in
it, you could accidentally hit return too early and wipe an entire
folder worth of stuff that you did *not* want to delete.
A good solution, as mentioned before, is simply to have *no* default if
an action is dangerous. Users can still use the keyboard to select the
action if they have Full Keyboard Access turned on, but it's not
possible to either initiate the action accidentally or close the alert
accidentally with the Return key.
Charles
On Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 01:38 PM, Keith Ray wrote:
On Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
[...]
>However, I don't know of any user that will dismiss a dialog without
reading it if they >are not expecting it. To do so is purely idiotic
[...]
I'm not an idiot (please ignore evidence to the contrary), but I've
sometimes automatically hit return key to close a dialog, and noticed
that it wasn't an expected dialog until AFTER I hit return.
So now you know at least ONE user...
--
C. Keith Ray
<http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/xpminifaq.html>
<http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/resume.html>
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