On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:53:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, John Levon wrote:
> > Are the doc team still insistent on this term ? It seems both unfamiliar
> > to users, and a bad description (the dialogs do /not/ pop up).
>
> IIRC, this was chosen as a compromise - we wanted to avoid the developer
> jargon ("dialog box" was deemed jargon)
Yup, this was a bone of much, much contention way back when...
> and use something a typical user might say. What does M$ Word
> (shudder!) call such things? That, unfortunately, is what we should
> attempt to be consistent with, since that is what typical users will
> know.
I think M$ also uses the word "Dialog Box". Or used to; now
everything is a Wizard...
--
John Weiss
"Not through coercion. Not by force. But by compassion. By
affection. And, a small fish." -His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
