Lame Alert: If only our friends in Redmond would learn..;-)
Posted : June 1, 2004 at 9:15 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
[via Dan Crevier’s Blog]
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The title has Abort=Quit, Retry=Debug, Ignore=Continue. Why not just name the buttons Quit, Debug and Continue in the first place? Why is it that these sorts of things are so much more common in Windows? Don’t people care?
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Duh..
- Anand
Category: Application Development
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2 Comments
Most likely, the code that does that just uses the standard windows dialog box (MessageBox) instead of using its own– i.e., whoever coded that portion was too lazy (Or maybe, the code had to be small and dependency-lightweight to be usable in many places… who knows?).
Posted by: JM Ibanez at June 2, 2004 @ 5:04 am
I would probably agree with your suggestion that the person who was coding it was being a little too lazy..:-)
Thx for the comment!
Posted by: Anand Sharma at June 2, 2004 @ 1:35 pm