comp.sys.mac.advocacy

In article <9oeeu3pdvl89flk81ah52ec56quptugi7c@4ax.com>,
Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:34:00 -0400, ZnU wrote:
>
> >In article ,
> > Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:57:20 -0400, "MuahMan"
> >> wrote:
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >> >Seriously. IE is rock stable, never crashes, easy to use, fast, and has
> >> >the
> >> >drop down arrow for history; so i don't have to actually open history. It
> >> >rocks since I generally visit the same 20-30 sites.
> >>
> >> It also has a home button on the toolbar. My home page is a webpage I
> >> made that has links to all of the sites I regularly visit. I use the
> >> Home button quite a bit. That Safari lacks one is a serious strike
> >> against it with me.
> >
> >Go to View -> Customize Toolbar and add one. (Works on the Mac, anyway.
> >It uses OS X's standard toolbar customization system; I'm not sure if
> >Apple would have ported all of that to Windows, but there's a fair
> >chance.)
>
> Yes it works the same in Windows apparently. But why in the %$#@ is
> something like that under View when it clearly belongs under
> Preferences or Options? This is doing nothing but firming up my
> opinion that to design their software Apple finds the common sense way
> of doing things and then avoids it all costs.

Apple is carrying a standard and widely followed Mac UI convention over
to the Windows version of Safari here.

You should also be able to right-click on the background of the toolbar
(i.e. not on a button) to get the command.

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