Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cxt105 Organization: Penn State University Date: Wednesday, 27 Mar 1991 20:01:25 EST From: Christopher Tate Message-ID: <91086.200125CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: Word for Windows References: <1991Mar24.025913.29727@amd.com> <1991Mar24.065427.16198@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Mar26.011127.28302@amd.com> <1991Mar26.063111.3133@cs.uoregon.edu> <1991Mar26.132012.26071@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <91086.011415CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> <4408@gmdzi.gmd.de> In article <4408@gmdzi.gmd.de>, strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) says: >Recently I read in a Macintosh magazin that now, finally, Hypercard adheres >to Apples Human Interface Guidlines. This implies that earlier versions >(which have been distributed with most Macintoshs, as far as I know) did >not do that. Was that magazine wrong? Does Apple always follow all its own >guidlines? As far as I can tell, it means that Apple has finally released a version of Hypercard since publishing the Human Interface Guidelines. The Guidelines are a somewhat recent development. The Apple Human Interface Notes discuss at some length the problems that arise because of the differences between the Hypercard paradigm and the standard Mac interface. ------- Christopher Tate | I hate writing, and I hate statistics, | but most of all I hate writing about cxt105@psuvm.psu.edu | statistics. I'd rather go to the ...!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cxt105 | dentist; at least there you get to spit. cxt105@psuvm.bitnet | - Ed Sewell