On 3/9/05 11:08 AM, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Interestingly enough, the OS X version of this dialog (with buttons "Cancel" and "Replace" does not adhere to the HI guidelines, and makes "Replace" the default...
Must be app-specific, because I tried this with BBEdit and it *does* adhere to the HI Guidelines (Cancel is the default, but Replace is the right-most button).
The employment of this rule is somewhat subjective. For myself, while I like it in rare cases, I would argue that BBEdit got it wrong there. The user chose "Replace" from a menu item -- they're aware of the action and can reasonably be assumed to understand its consequences. Therefore I would make the confirmation button the default.
Circumstances in which I could see having the default be something other than the confirmation button would be actions where the implications are an unrecoverable loss of data and whose implications may not be fully understood. For example, choosing "Format Drive" from a disk utility menu means some pretty serious stuff -- I would make "Cancel" the default there.
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