Re: What do you call that thing....

Subject: Re: What do you call that thing....
From: Mitch Berg <mberg -at- IS -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:09:11 -0600

Jane Bergen wrote:
>
> I'm trying to describe an interface for a user guide. We're using
> the Windows Explorer model of a collapsible/expandable tree in one of
> the views.... is it generally considered OK (in other words,
> non-jargon) to refer to it as a "tree" --- if not, then what do we
> call it?

At one shop, we called it a "Hierarchical List".

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