We have all seen the ubiquitous "OK" "Cancel" buttons. Many people have recommended more descriptive names that include verbs for button labels. I just ran across a Cocoa application that shall remain nameless. I attempted to cancel a long running operation by pressing a "Cancel" button, and an alert panel appeared asking if I wanted to "OK" or "Cancel". I correctly interpreted that as do I want to OK the cancel or do I want to cancel the cancel. It did boggle my mind a little. I bring this up because I ran across another application today that took the advice of using more informative verbs for button labels. I tried to cancel an operation, and a panel appeared. The two choices were "Cancel" and "Cancel". I assume they meant cancel the operation or cancel the cancel. The mind boggles. To make this more Cocoa related, is it worthwhile to add a feature to AppKit so that you can't have two buttons with the same label on one panel ? Is there some other way that Cocoa or the tools can "help" application developers avoid silly errors ? The layout guides in IB helped a lot to standardize layout. Is there a way to standardize other aspects of user interface presentation ? Is this something better left to individual developers and used as an indicator of overall application quality ? _______________________________________________
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