Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Re: netsurf: branch master updated. release/3.0-321-g0a0e786

On 21/07/2013 14:48, Chris Young wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2013 13:43:05 +0100, Chris Young wrote:
>
>> The correct definition, I'm told, is that they should only be used if
>> the option pops up a window for further input/confirmation _before_
>> the action takes place. Apparently this was defined by Apple ages ago
>> and is supposed to be a cross-platform standard.
>
> The top answer here explains better than I can:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/637683/when-to-use-ellipsis-after-menu-items
>
> I note that additional confirmation actually shouldn't have an
> ellipsis, so Quit (if NetSurf checks you want to do that) shouldn't
> have an ellipsis either.

I didn't check the Haiku guidelines but IIRC we deal with that somewhere...
actually here it is:
http://api.haiku-os.org/HIG/ch06s02.html

"ellipsis is a series of 3 dots (...) used to tell the user that a
control, often a menu item or button, will open a window."

Except we use the UTF8 ellipsis character instead.

François.

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