Re: [Usability] HIG Clarification for "Close Without Saving" button

["Eugene O'Connor" <Eugene Oconnor Sun COM>]

If we are going to update the GDSG, I have a few suggestions to make 
also. I'm a bit tight for time at the moment, so it'll be next month 
before I can get some concrete suggestions out. I'll send the 
suggestions to the doc-list when I get them together.

Eugene

Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:41 +0000, Patrick Costello wrote:

[snip]

> > The additional guidelines in the GDSG that I would suggest are as follows:
> >
> > - Uppercase prepositions that are part of a phrasal verb. [As recommended
> > by the MS MSTP]
> >
> > - Always uppercase the first word and the last word, regardless of part of
> > speech. [As recommended by both CMS and MS MSTP]
> >
> > Therefore, the label in the original message would be:
> >
> > "Close Without Saving".
>
>
> Yeah, my recommendation was based solely on standard industry behavior,
> but I see that CMS isn't really capturing an industry consensus in this
> case.  I do agree that "Close without Saving" looks awkward.
>
> Personally, I've never liked seeing "from" capitalized, but it looks as
> if only Microsoft agrees with me.
>
> I agree with your first suggestion, and strongly agree with the second.
>
> --
> Shaun
>
>
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