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Re: Button vs. Icon

Subject: Re: Button vs. Icon
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:52:05 -0500


I have to disagree, dood.
Applications and files on the Windows desktop are icons, and
you do get a response by clicking them (and even more by
double-clicking them). And the thingies in the system tray are
also called icons, and they also respond to clicking or double-clicking.

But I'm also not comfortable with the convention Lisa proposes.
A clicakable GUI element that has a graphic on it rather than text
still acts like a button and should be called a button as far as I'm
concerned.

Fred Ridder

From: Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
Reply-To: Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
CC: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Button vs. Icon
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:02:35 -0500


But you can't click an icon and get a response... it's an image!


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:16:37 -0700 (MST), Lisa M. Bronson
<lisa -at- techwr-l -dot- com> wrote:
>
> For us, the difference is whether it's text or a picture on the GUI
> element. We use a lot of icons to cut down on screen translations for
> globalization. So, for your example, if the element says the word "Save"
> on it, I would call it a button. If it has a green checkmark or some other
> symbol/picture, I would call it an icon.

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Re: Button vs. Icon: From: Bill Swallow

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