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Subject:Re: Window "panes" - a better term? From:Iain Harrison <iharrison -at- SCT -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:31:37 GMT
I think that if you accept the concept of a window (which we mostly do) you
ought to use the analogy consistently.
This means that the area of a window you look 'through' is a pane, and the
border is a frame. I can't see any advantage in messing up a nice, clear
analogy.
