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by Thomas Zander on Thursday 22/Mar/2007, @00:54

You wrote;
"Ellipses also have a completely different meaning in a menu item or button label: to tell the user they must provide information before completing their task"

Actually; the meaning there is the same as the meaning here. It signifies there is information missing.

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Re: ellipsis
by ac on Thursday 22/Mar/2007, @01:50

but you cannot know _what_ info is "missing"

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Re: ellipsis
by zonk on Thursday 22/Mar/2007, @06:15

The difference is, whether the UI is missing information that you should provide, or if you are missing information that the UI should provide. IMHO it's quite a fundamental difference.

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