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

[Laura Lemay <lemay-lists1 -at- lauralemay -dot- com>]

As a data point on the "appears" question:  I have an Apple style  
guide from 1994.  It says:

"A dialog box _appears_,  or the application program _presents_ or  
_displays_ a dialog box."

Some people have mentioned that in the early days of windows-based  
computing dialog boxes appearing was considered magical and confusing  
to users and thus the contraindication against "appears."  I also  
happen to have the original Macintosh 128K manuals from 1984 and "a  
dialog box appears" is used frequently and consistently throughout.


Laura

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