The use of this is completely different from what we have already described. Now we can turn to web applications and their use of the ellipsis. Microsoft IxD guidelines are very specific that you shouldn’t add the ellipsis after menu items where additional input is not immediately required. This pattern makes sense for two reasons (beyond its convention status of course): (1) the usage of the ellipsis is consistent with what you would expect from an ellipsis-namely that more is expected through input, and (2) it is accompanied with a textual description of the interaction’s results.
#HOW TO INSERT ELLIPSIS IN WORD FOR A MENU WINDOWS#
Here is an example from Notepad even in Windows 8.1. “Save As”), you must give additional information through an input. The ellipsis is designating that if you want to accomplish “x” (i.e. This is also the similar usage found in Windows applications. Specifically, it prepares the user to expect the appearance of a window or dialog in which to make selections or enter information before the command executes. When it appears in the name of a button or a menu item, an ellipsis character (…) indicates to the user that additional information is required before the associated operation can be performed. For example, in the OS X Human Interface Guidelines, we read the following instructions for using ellipsis: Now the pattern has existed for a long time in desktop applications, but it has served a different purposes. I started seeing ellipsis iconography show up more and more over the last couple of years in web applications. I want to bring up another pattern that has recently become a big problem also: the humble ellipsis. The Ellipsis’ Traditional Use in Interfaces This along with other examples like using a select menu for smaller viewport navigation highlights a problem with our community: we can all-to-quickly grab onto a fad without asking fundamental questions about whether it works or not.
Some have done extensive A/B testing to prove it alone doesn’t work well, and others write passionately how they have abandoned the pattern. Recently amongst web developers there been a passionate conversation about the use of “hamburger” iconography for progressive disclosure usually showing navigation (for the record, I hate that name for the icon).
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