Open vs Appear,Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology")

[James Barrow]

>On Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:38 PM Nilesh Jahagirdar wrote:

>A question for all those who voted for "appear": would you use "disappear"
>just as willingly? As in, "Click OK. The window disappears"? Or is
>"disappear" more "magical" than "appear"?


You guys crack me up.  People around me wonder why I keep breaking out in
spontaneous chuckling.  The use of the word "appear" takes on an entirely
new life when you put it this way.  Now if I can only get the image of David
Copperfield as a tech writer out of my head:

1.  Enter information in the text field...if you dare.
2.  Click the OK button to invoke the magic of Billgatesicus.
3.  The window appears from deep within the bowels of XP.

:^)