I have found that the vasy majority of the Palm apps follow either Done & Cancel or
Yes & No in the dialogs. Personally, I never
did like using OK and kept on thinking it was there to save two bytes of memory.
Steve
"McCollister, Mike" wrote:
> I have noticed that most of the built in Palm applications use "OK" and
> "Cancel" for alert forms that contain questions. I thought that if a the
> Palm asks the user something like "Delete selected To Do item?" that the
> buttons should be "Yes" and "No" instead of "OK" and "Cancel". However,
> there are other alert dialogs that use "Yes" and "No". What is the official
> Palm "sytle" when it comes to this? I know that since the Palm Portable
> Keyboard has "OK" and "Cancel" keys that it makes sense to use "OK" and
> "Cancel". But on the other hand, "Yes" and "No" seem to better represent an
> answer to a question.
>
> Any comments or official word on this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike McCollister
>
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