Why "Sorry" as a button? It sounds pretty awkward to me. I wouldn't be sure what...

CharlesW · on Jan 8, 2018

> Why "Sorry" as a button?

I believe the idea was that making the user click "OK" was adding insult to injury, and "Cancel" wouldn't have made sense either.

That said, the word "sorry" doesn't appear in a HIG from 1992 (the earliest I could find in PDF form).

nkrisc · on Jan 8, 2018

It always seemed weird to me, like I was apologizing to the computer for causing an error or something.