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Subject:To click on, or just to click? From:"Mark L. Levinson" <mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:05:22 +0300
I'd like your up-to-the-minute opinions on whether it's preferable
to tell the user to "click" a line in an on-screen list or to
"click on" the line.
Please let me know (at the address below, unless you'd really
like to discuss it on the list; I'll summarize in any case)--
- what you think about this particular case (when what's being
clicked [on] is a line in a list on the screen)
- whether (a) if the case were a little different you might
choose differently, or (b) you'd follow the same course
in pretty much all cases of "click" vs. "click on"
- any further wisdom you can bring to the issue
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- Mark L. Levinson - Memco Software - mark -at- memco -dot- co -dot- il
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