Re: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology
In your original message about this, you said "It's
"dialog," not "dialogue box" (by general convention)."
You have a perfect right to decide for yourself and
your company that "box" is redundant clutter and you're
not going to use it when you write. But saying that
eliminating the word "box" from the term "dialog box"
is a "general convention" is misleading. As David
pointed out, the Microsoft Manual of Style uses "dialog
box" and, for the record, so does Sun.
I stand corrected.
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RE: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology: From: Chinell, David F \(GE Indust, Security\)
Re: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology: From: Dick Margulis
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