Re: [Q] Enter Key & HIG
Re: [Q] Enter Key & HIG
- Subject: Re: [Q] Enter Key & HIG
- From: Eric Gorr <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 08:08:13 -0400
I'm curious, what is the actual bug here?
How should the documentation read with respect to the Enter key?
Thank you.
On Aug 5, 2010, at 2:32 AM, John Joyce wrote:
> Please file a bug on the documentation.
>
> On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Martin Wierschin wrote:
>
>>> The HIG states:
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Enter
>>> Most applications add information to a document as soon as the user enters it. In some cases, however, the application may need to wait until a whole collection of information is available before processing it. The Enter key tells the application that the user has finished entering information in a particular area of the document, such as a text field. While the user is entering text into a text document, pressing Enter has no effect.
>>> -----
>>>
>>> But, what I have noticed is that both Pages and Keynote treat the enter key just like the return key when entering text, which seems to go against the HIG.
>>
>> The humble TextEdit also violates the HIG.
>>
>> Personally I don't have a strong opinion on it, but I don't see why the Enter key shouldn't do something in a text document. It's not as if the user would expect the keystroke to dismiss the whole document window as it would with a sheet/dialog. But perhaps the HIG is concerned with the reverse? That a user gets accustomed to the Enter key inserting a newline, and then tries it out in a sheet, accidentally dismissing it?
>>
>> In my company's application, we use the Enter key to scroll the insertion point / selection into view and "flash" the surrounding area to help with spotting it.
>>
>> ~Martin
>>
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