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Re: FW: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots

Subject: Re: FW: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:26:08 -0400




Lou Quillio wrote:



For my money, the button should be marked "Browse". If that's
impossible, I say that "..." (Unicode entity 8230 [decimal] or 2026
[hex]) should be defined to mean "Browse" in the UI context, and be
done.


I respectfully disagree. The ellipsis button is not always used for the browse function. I think if the browse function is in play then the button should read "Browse" and I can't conceive of any circumstance where that would be impossible.

I think the ellipsis button should be reserved for popup pickers (other than file pickers, which would, by definition, constitute browse dialogs), such as calendar controls, color pickers, sequence dialogs, etc. This is analogous to the standard Windows use in menus, where an unadorned menu entry actually executes a command (copy to the clipboard, paste from the clipboard, etc.) and an ellipsis after an entry indicates that the command opens a dialog or wizard where the user can set choices or execute some other function.

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RE: FW: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots: From: Rochelle McAndrews
Re: FW: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots: From: Lou Quillio

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