Re: [Usability]Ellipses ("...") in menu items

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 15:37, Yanko Kaneti wrote:

> Please notice the tilt in the parenthesis. 
> I believe most people, especially the ones coming from windows land
> would rather expect _that_ information from the ellipses.

The HIG's recommendation on ellipses is identical to Windows
recommendations (and everyone else's, AFAIR)... see the section headed
"Ellipses" at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch14a.asp

So I'm not clear what you think the difference is between the two...?

I do agree that the current-but-standard definition perhaps seems
needlessly complicated, but unfortunately if you just change it to
"every item that opens a window has an ellipsis", menus do get pretty
ugly pretty quickly :/  I don't know what the happy medium is, if there
is one.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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