kk@mcnc.org (Krzysztof Kozminski) (09/19/89)
I am confused. I have seen three people say that the 'Save as' capability in the standard Yes/No/Cancel close box is a good idea and then go on saying 'but thee Will Not Violate The Great Standard'. This seems holier than Pope to me. Upon re-reading the last paragraph in IM vol 4, page 11, I see that Apple guidelines explicitly permit modifying the 'close box', while recommending that the *general* arrangement of the buttons remains the same. In article <15631@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes: >[Lotsa stuff about how an extra button will confuse the user] Right, sure, I can imagine the confusion and despair: "Gee, what's this 'Save as' thing. I wonder what this is for ... gee, I'd better click 'Discard' just to be safe ... oh, $#!T, I wanted to save my changes !" All this is starting to waste bandwidth. I suggest moving further discussion of the 'Save as' button to e-mail. On a tangent: the guidelines say that the alternative with the most disastrous effects should be the most difficult to choose for the user; Perhaps the 'No/Discard' button should be 6 by 20 pixels with text in font size 4 ? :-) KK -- Kris Kozminski kk@mcnc.org "The party was a masquerade; the guests were all wearing their faces."