peterw;465174 Wrote: > Generally, ">" seems comparable to the "..." ellipsis in Microsoft > Windows indicating that the control will bring up a submenu or dialogue > box
In OS X, the meaning of the ellipsis is "additional information is always needed to complete the command". In general, the additional information (how many pages, or confirmation of a dangerous command) is obtained using a dialog box. But a menu command that would, say, open a toolbox, should not have an ellipsis (because opening the toolbox *is* the command). <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGText/XHIGText.html> I don't know what Microsoft specified "..." to mean but it's likely to be similar to Apple. I just wanted to point out the ellipsis meant more "more info needed" than "a dialog opens". This may impact any analogy between ">" and "...". Now I agree with OP that the interface is somewhat inconsistent - and made the point elsewhere a lot of its capabilities were "invisible" (which was acceptable on old players given the limitations of the display but less so on new players). Fred -- Fred ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68914 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/jive
