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Authored by: AJB on Nov 02, '06 12:29:31PM

I don't really think they do. One of the defining characteristics of the Mac is (and has ever been) the underlying user interface consistency. Basically if it works that way in one application, it will probably work that way in another. Since 1984, there has been one keyboard short cut to quit an application (compared to countless inconsistent methods on windows apps). The same goes for cut/copy/paste.

To demonstrate this consistency, try command clicking on the title bar (above the URL entry area) of this window, and try it on a finder window, and an open document window. You should see a menu appear with the locations back to the root, either in the file system or on the web server. It's a paradigm of consistency that underlies the mac experience.

So to switchers who aren't used to the way things should be, because you have been trained to have to relearn every app from scratch, I say "if you expect it to work that way, it probably does".



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