On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Jason Zietz wrote:
Clearly "Design" is a tab, but "Current Design" and its siblings don't look like tabs, though they do *behave* like tabs.
A "tab" is a pattern that is quite obviously based on physical tabs used in books, filing cabinets, etc. For that reason, to be called a tab, it should retain the visual affordances of physical tabs. Therefore, they aren't tabs.
I started calling them "subtabs" but then switched to "submenus" and now I can't decide between either or something else altogether.
Menus, again named after physical objects, present a list of options to select from. Therefore, they aren't menus.
What would you call "Current Design" in this example?
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