RE: Is it polite to point web browsers?

Subject: RE: Is it polite to point web browsers?
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Julia Norquist" <techiejules -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:48:36 -0600

Julia Norquist wrote:

> "Point to" or "point at" is too technical for some of my
> users. They won't know what pointing a browser means. I don't
> use "navigate" or "browse to," either. I just tell them to "go."

If they don't know what "point to," "navigate," or "browse to" mean, how
do they know how to "go"?

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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