[mcculley]

The web needs a HIG.

All of these people who keep saying that webapps can replace desktop applications were simply never desktop power users. They don’t know what they don’t know.

[andai]

Yeah it would be nice if the web accessibility guidelines also focused on actually using the thing normally. For example: offsetting the scrollbar from the right edge of the screen by 1px should be punishable by death.

[dxdm]

I think HIG means "Human Interface Guidelines" here. Seems to be an Apple thing.

I wish more people would avoid or at least introduce abbreviations that may be unfamiliar to the audience.

[andai]

Microsoft had one too: WIG!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475521

[teddyh]

There are quite a number of them: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines#Exa...>

[marcosdumay]

I think it was a Xerox thing. But since the 90s, everybody has some since.

Oh, and if you want to read one to learn, the Microsoft ones are better than the Apple's.