On 03/21/01 20:16, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey, do we really underline so much that it deserves its own keyboard
> shortcut?
<http://devworld.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-107.html#M
ARKER-9-7>
If you support the functionality of Bold, Italic, and Underline, then you
really should not use the keyboard equivalents for something else.
The consistency of commands and UI across applications is a significant part
of what makes a Mac a Mac.
On 03/21/01 12:58, "Michael Munger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I have my theory on minds that get confused for such things ;-)
My theory says that many such minds buy my software. So it's best to pander
to them. ;-)
Seriously, one of the major changes writ large by the Macintosh in 1984 was
the lack of modality in the interface.
In conjunction with the aforementioned consistency across applications,
these two things arguably comprised the majority of the Macs vaunted ease of
use.
Most of the UI changes since then have been iterative, evolutionary rather
than revolutionary.
Although modality has been reintroduced, for power users, in things such as
contextual menus.
Personally I'm tired of the entire paradigm of computers as virtual desktops
storing files. The vast majority of what I deal with don't need to be "data
files" and representing them that way is vastly inefficient. Entourage is
actually one of the early mainstream adopters of experimenting with "data
views" and "data collections".
mikel
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