RE : More usage: "Open" or "Access" web addresses

[Yves JEAUROND <jingting -at- rogers -dot- com>]

Give users the easiest path: "Click [URL]."
   
  Btw, "open" is a figure of speech for output---you can open a can
or a door, but not an URL.
  And by giving them a link to the URL, they have access. :-)
   
  A trick that helps with such problems is asking what the user is
trying to make. To do so , consider Aristotle's four causes, 
  if the example were a marble statue:
  - material cause: marble (The result is made of what?)
  - formal cause: the model posing for the statue (The result is made to look like who?)
  - efficient cause: hammer & chisel (The result is made how?)
  - final cause: payment for finishing the statue. (The result is made why?)
   
  Focus on the efficient cause, by answering the question "How?",
rather than the material cause---the computer implementation, HTML...
   
  Sad Fact
  => A user can only click [to select, to enable, to use], type, scroll, read,
    and very little else.
      All the other verbs---go, visit, surf, access, run, draw---are highly metaphorical;
    at best they give a specialized audience an analogy of some formal cause; 
    at worst they are ambiguous. Ask the localizers.
   
  Regards,
   
  YJ
   
  "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> a écrit :
  Again, I'm seeing different variations here. If I want to direct users
to ftp://ftp.comeandgetit.com , would I
tell them to open that URL or access it?



I probably just advised them to "open" IE, so should I use "open" again
so soon, or should I tell them to "start" IE, and "open" this web
address?



Are web addresses opened or accessed?



I'm getting dizzy.



-- Craig


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