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http://www.macopinion.com/columns/intelligence/02/05/17/index.html ...................... In the old Mac interface, "Save As" was always in the "File" menu. Perhaps if you are a Windows or an X Window user, you would think to look for a "Save As" option if there isn't a file menu. As a Mac user of 17 years' experience, I do not even think to look for a "Save As" if there is no "File" menu -- at least not when I use a Mac. Of course, if I use some other platform, I do expect to look for options at random in weird places. One of the key ideas in the old Mac interface was consistency -- divided into internal and external consistency. Internal consistency meant that similar things had to work similar ways in the same application. External consistency meant that the same thing in different applications should work the same way. The benefit of consistency is difficult to imagine if you don't have it. When I have been using a Mac exclusively for a while, using another interface is an exercise in frustration. If I use another interface exclusively for a while, having to hunt down inconsistent ways of doing the same thing becomes the way things are done -- even if I know that each time I have to work out how to do something is a fraction of a second lost. (...) Usability was the great advantage I always saw in using a Mac. The crash- prone OS was a liability. It seems we have fixed one thing, and broken another. ...................... [ This guy obviously hasn't used trackers! ;) I just _love_ the default keyboard shortcut for copying song blocks in MadTracker: ALT+F4 - that's the same as the default Windows keyboard shortcut for quitting a program... ("Undo"? What's that? A misspelled Finnish name?) - j ] ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo." --- The Holy Mad Cow
