{"id":29660,"date":"2020-08-03T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29660"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T19:35:11","slug":"apple-style-guide-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/03\/apple-style-guide-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Style Guide on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Plus, only recently did I learn that Apple makes its style guide available on the Web<\/a>—previously, I had been aware only of the ebook version<\/a> that you could download from Apple Books and read in the Books app.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Here’s another tricky one that we run into all the time. How do you refer to something or give instructions that work on both the iPhone and the iPad?<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

What about modes like airplane mode<\/a>, sleep mode<\/a>, and target disk mode<\/a>? All lowercase, according to Apple. Dark Mode uses initial capitals, as does Low Power Mode<\/a>. But then we have Power Reserve mode<\/a>, in mixed case, and Target Display Mode<\/a>, which Apple uses both in lowercase and with capitals but doesn’t include in the style guide.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

In its December 2019 revision, Apple fell in with the rabble that prefers to lowercase “Internet,” adding it to the lowercase short form of “World Wide Web.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

The Web version is much better than the e-book and PDF, but, as with much of Apple’s documentation, it’s hard to link into it.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n