Would it be possible to make a program that made Ctrl-W always work I knowĪbout Alt-F4 but Ctrl-W is an easier combination to reach for. Other programs and getting frustrated when it doesn't work. In Adobe products, Ctrl-W closes child windows but not the mainĬtrl-W will close Explorer windows, but in many other programs, you If there's only one tab open, it closes the whole Firefox window. There is even this internet gem talking about how Adobe products (on Windows) don't follow the convention used by Firefox: While this copy of the HIG is from 1995, this convention was on the Mac before even this, perhaps as early as 1986. The user can also press Command-W to close windows.
Window, a modeless dialog box, a folder, or any other type of window.Ĭlicking in a window’s close box provides a mouse-based method ofĬlosing windows. The Close command closes the active window, which may be a document This is the oldest copy I could find of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Likewise to paste, you right click, because why make everything the same? That's boring. Even in 2014, you can't copy and paste like a normal human being, you have to first mark an area of text and then use the enter key to copy it.
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I certainly remember a lot of early windows software that had unique cut/copy/paste shortcuts.įor instance, even in Windows 7 Notepad doesn't close with Ctrl+ W, you have to use Alt+ F4, or Alt, then F, then X.Īnother example is the command prompt. Microsoft and Windows were much more open to allowing developers to do whatever they chose, and ignoring many conventions, certainly around how keyboard shortcuts worked. Included in these guidelines was this, among many other things. W was chosen because of its close proximity to Q which was the obvious choice for a uit keyboard shortcut.Īpple was very keen on having every piece of software either internally or by a third party follow a set of human interface guidelines. Windows originally used Alt+ F4 to close windows, but they realized that was a sub-optimal (read: dumb) choice.
It was absolutely "stolen" or "borrowed" from Mac OS.
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