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.
