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I'm bracing myself for losing ellipses in Apple's menus too.

At least based on the trajectory of macOS's design decline.

For those who might not be aware, a long-standing design pattern on macOS is for menu item labels to have a "..." at the end when a click will take you somewhere, rather than taking immediate action. So you can click more confidently.

It's an example of the subtle quality and attention to detail you get with native UI, that gets lost when you build a web app and re-invent the wheel.

Most "web" UIs don't include this detail, as evidences by the screenshots in the article.





I have never known! On my web apps, I _try_ to give buttons that perform an irreversible action a different color, like saving, updating, creating, deleting etc

I use outline buttons for "link" buttons and colored-in ones for those that perform actions.



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