Re: Dialog Boxes

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From: Earle Martin
Subject: Re: Dialog Boxes
Date: 17:54 on 03 Nov 2003

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:40:06PM -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote:
> Why can't more people take a page from Apple's HCI guidelines, which
> specify that button labels should be verbs?  "Quit" and "Debug" would make
> so much more sense than "OK" and "Cancel".

This is one of my long-running hates. Why do yes/no choices offer you "OK"
and "Cancel" instead of "Yes" or "No"? NO SPEAKA DA ENGRISH??

I hate "OK".



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Dialog Boxes Phil!Gregory 17:40 on 03 Nov 2003
- Re: Dialog Boxes Earle Martin 17:54 on 03 Nov 2003
  - David Cantrell 19:41 on 03 Nov 2003
- peter (Peter da Silva) 18:29 on 03 Nov 2003
  - Simon Cozens 18:48 on 03 Nov 2003
    - too deep to show
- Michael G Schwern 22:22 on 03 Nov 2003

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