Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:25:39 +0000

On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

--- Shaun McCance <shaunm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...

The Help button is a perfect example. Because Apple uses the single ? icon very effectively, they can put it almost anywhere in an interface.

Is ? a universally understood symbol?

Probably not, but a better question would be "is there any better understood symbol".

I quite like the GNOME lifebuoy.
...

For a couple of years I thought it was a piece of candy. :-)

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/

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