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Subject:Re: To click on, or just to click? From:Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:25:58 -0400
Oh, I don't know about new... we had this discussion a few
months ago (but it's one of my pet peeves, so allow me to
jump in again ;)
I'm a select/choose person. I hardly ever use the mouse in
place of keyboard shortcuts. "Click" rubs me the wrong way...
it seems clumsy, like those big, fat pencils kids use to learn
to print. I could see where it might be appropriate for a very
elementary audience, perhaps. But computer-savvy folks? Probably
not appropriate.
Besides, to be picky, you click the mouse button to select
a radio button -- you don't click the radio button. Since
the first phrase is long and awkward, shorten it to "select
<radio button>."
A.
--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software mailto:alexiap -at- sems -dot- com
>----------
>For standard
>Windows etc. interfaces, since users always have the choice of using
>keystrokes, I use "choose", unless I am talking about a list, when
>I say "select". This usage is a mandated standard in the Sun/UNIX
>world by the way.
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