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"appropriate behavior of these design elements is defined in the Windows Vista User Experience standard"

This isn't from 1999. Something's amiss...

Here's the original http://web.archive.org/web/20000815063033/http://www.useit.c...

In fairness, apart from removing dead links to Amazon books on the likes of Win 98 UI guidelines (probably not a big seller any more) and adding in a handful of internal links to slightly more recent iarticles, it's pretty much untouched. Talk about evergreen content...

Much of it is, though it seems Nielsen's revised this at least somewhat. Hrm...

As notahacker notes, the original text is on the Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20000302210201/http://www.useit.c...

Text: "The appropriate behavior of these design elements is defined in the Windows UI standard, the Macintosh UI standard, and the Java UI standard."

I suspect some sort of search-and-replace.

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