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From: james@utastro.UUCP (James McCartney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Great Standard Yes/No/Cancel Alert Contest
Message-ID: <4349@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 17:48:21 GMT
References: <24871@santra.UUCP> <8461@hoptoad.uucp> <25123@santra.UUCP> <8502@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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In article <8502@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> In article <25123@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
> >In article <8461@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
> >>This is one of the few cases where I recommend *not* going along with
> >>the user interface standard.
> 
> By the way, someone (David?) said that the IM-4 specification had been
> replaced by another, and alert box with "save, Discard, Cancel", but I

   I vote for Save, Discard, Cancel because we all know users don't read
manuals, and I know that they don't read dialog boxes either, they just
punch buttons. The user usually hasn't read the question he is answering
because he assumes he knows what he is being asked. In this case I think
that the guideline recommending that menu commands be verbs also apply to
buttons.

--- James McCartney