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Subject: RE: Open vs Appear, Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question

Subject: Subject: RE: Open vs Appear, Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question
From: "Greg Holmes" <greg -dot- holmes -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:37:14 -0400

Only in magic does something appear.

This chestnut must have been in a popular book or course somewhere ;)

Things appear all the time. Products appear on the market. New
talent appears on the scene. And my wife appears whenever I'm about
to do something questionable, like sweep dust under the rug ...

Quibble about it all that you
want, but software doesn't show you anything. What it does,
in the purest sense is modify the pixel display on the monitor,
therefore, when you click on something, the computer or
application displays the results of that function or process.

But we don't talk like that, do we? Users drag something over
and drop it; they don't change the X and Y coordinates by depressing
the left mouse button while the mouse cursor is positioned over ...
well, not really "over" in two dimensions, but congruent with the icon
and with a higher Z-index ... ;) No, we say "drag the email to the folder".

From the user's point of view, a dialog box "appears". It doesn't
slide in, fade in (well, these days it might ...), drop in from above,
or walk in. It just appears, as a result of either their click or
some other instigation.

Greg Holmes
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