Post #2633375
2025-12-24 00:08 UTC
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@mjtsai@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 00:52
@drdrang@fosstodon.org Yes, I think you’re right (for the Mac keyboard).
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@_the_cloud@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 01:04
@drdrang@fosstodon.org @mjtsai@mastodon.social @bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud @gruber@mastodon.social There was no Esc key on the original Mac keyboard. And Inside Macintosh Vol. 1, which was the current Dialog Manager reference at this point, provided the example shown below. IIRC the convention to place the default button in the lower right corner happened in the '90s, post-System 7.
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@nriley@mstdn.social 2025-12-24 01:06
@drdrang@fosstodon.org @mjtsai@mastodon.social @bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud @gruber@mastodon.social Yes, it's in the 1987 HIG mentioning left-to-right, top-to-bottom with the most commonly used button in the bottom right. Mac keyboards prior to ADB (SE/II) didn't even have an Escape key. (There's a great HIG archive on GitHub; see https://github.com/gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines/blob/main/1987%20Apple%20Human%20Interface%20Guidelines%20-%20The%20Apple%20Desktop%20Interface.pdf).
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@chockenberry@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 01:40
@drdrang@fosstodon.org @mjtsai@mastodon.social @bgeerdes@mastodon.cloud @gruber@mastodon.social Return/Enter performed the default action (if there was one). There was no key labeled “escape” (but terminal emulators let you remap, I used vi on a 512k Mac).