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Subject:RE: What would you call this? From:"John David Hickey" <dave -at- toonboom -dot- com> To:"Techwr-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>, "Angela Hill" <ahill -at- wwg -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:13:12 -0500
Greetings!
> My question: what do I call these? I've just been using "area" and "tab"
> temporarily. I can't think of an application that has exactly the same
> structure so I can't compare it to anything directly.
I think if they look like tabs, the user's will know that you are talking
about tabs. As long as you use "tabs" consistently, the user will adapt
fairly quickly.
But if "tab" is still no good, how about "panel" or "pane"?
Nah... Stick to tab. It works...
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Be seeing you,
Dave
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