By John Gruber
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System 7’s Balloon Help had an elegant solution to the “Why is this menu item disabled?” problem. Apple encouraged developers to provide separate Balloon Help strings for each state an item could be in; so, you could hover over a disabled menu item and Balloon Help would explain why the item was disabled.
★ Tuesday, 1 July 2008