{"id":27735,"date":"2019-12-31T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27735"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:30:18","slug":"select-vs-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/31\/select-vs-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"Select vs. Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inessential.com\/2019\/12\/30\/reminder_select_and_choose_are_not_synon\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/inessential.com\/2019\/12\/30\/reminder_select_and_choose_are_not_synon\"><p>People often think, mistakenly, that <em>select<\/em> is the polite or proper form of <em>choose<\/em> &mdash; but, in user-interface-world, they actually mean different things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve intuitively used &ldquo;choose&rdquo; for menu items. However, I had been using &ldquo;select&rdquo; for pop-up menu items because I see them as making a selection&mdash;just a variant of a radio button&mdash;rather than invoking a command. Apple&rsquo;s style guide says to use &ldquo;choose&rdquo; for both.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/common-miscapitalizations-of-tech-names\/\">Common Miscapitalizations of Tech Names<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/build-your-own-damn-hig\/\">Build Your Own Damn HIG<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: People often think, mistakenly, that select is the polite or proper form of choose &mdash; but, in user-interface-world, they actually mean different things. I&rsquo;ve intuitively used &ldquo;choose&rdquo; for menu items. However, I had been using &ldquo;select&rdquo; for pop-up menu items because I see them as making a selection&mdash;just a variant of a radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-31T19:30:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"a1a39e58-f5f1-4444-950c-c54e5b1a537d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-31T19:30:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AoaOeWPXxRESVDMVOWxpTfQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[164,30,1666,1197],"class_list":["post-27735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-documentation","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-writing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27736,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions\/27736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}