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Subject:Re: What is the best term to use? From:Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> To:Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:39:11 -0700
Jan Cohen wrote:
>
> have a pretty tough time calling "tabs" applets. I can see tabs being
> created by an applet, or clicking on a tab to execute an applet, but I
> cannot see a tab providing operational functionality.
>
It would be useful, in order to put some of these concerns to bed, to
know the architecture of the tabbed program--is the tabbed interface
superficial, like a front end? Or another possibility that appeals to me
is calling the tabs 'gateways', if they give access but don't provide
the main programs' functions themselves.
If the tabbed application is developed as a client server design, then
those tabs and program functions could be described and called by their
functional role. I think that calling the tabs 'clients' would have a
salutory and invigorating effect on users. But I'm afraid that calling
them tabs or applets wouldn't have that same beneficial effect, at least
not on me, but as always, YMMV.
Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edowrdsmith -dot- com
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