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Latch · 02-16-2004, 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by redlemon
I'll take this one, SM.

"Because Firebird uses GTK on the Linux platform, and because the latest versions of the GNOME UI specs switched the OK and Cancel buttons, the Firefox devs switched the buttons in all versions of Firefox to match the UI spec, IIRC. "

I'll be the first to admit that I have no idea what they are talking about.

Quote:

Originally posted by SecretMethod70
Well, Latch, I'm assuming that you're talking about Firefox on Linux. To quote the response I got from someone in #mozillazine on irc.mozilla.org -

and

So, in short, it's not a bug, but the Human Interface Guidelines say it should be that way on some platforms, so on those platforms it is.

EDIT: damn, looks like someone beat me to it while I was looking up the answer

Thanks guys. I thought it may be to follow a set of standards, now I know.. I'll learn to live with it