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Subject:Re: Web-based interface issues From:Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us> To:dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com Date:Wed, 20 May 2009 10:19:35 -0400
Certainly a person preference, but to me anything displayed in a browser
window is a page, even when the page contains other GUI elements like
buttons, fields ect. or allows for interaction like data retrieval or
entry.
Cheers!
-Greg
techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on
05/19/2009 05:00:08 PM:
<snip>
> When I use my browser to open up a software application... what is the
> most commonly used terminology:
>
> Window
> Screen
>
> I don't want to refer to browser all the time, since our users know they
> are a browser window...
</snip>
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