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RE: Open vs Appear, Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology")
Subject:RE: Open vs Appear, Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology") From:"Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:12:51 -0700 (PDT)
'Round my house, if a window "opens," I go investigate what caused it.
Normally, they don't do it of their own accord.
Of course, they don't just "appear" either.
--Guy K. Haas
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
On Wed, October 11, 2006 2:00 pm, Bonnie Granat wrote:
> What do you do with a real window? There is no reason not to stick with
> the
> metaphor, is there? A page may display something, but a window opens.
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