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Subject:Re: Pop-Up Windows From:Peter Kent <techwr -at- ARUNDEL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Jun 1997 16:21:15 -0600
OOops, sorry, this was supposed to go to techomm.
Which reminds me...isn't it a bit of a nuisance that this mailing list
doesn't have a Reply To address. In other words, you should be able to
simply hit the Reply button and have the msg go to the correct place!
Peter Kent
>> Hi Barb,
>> The term "popup" is well-established in the PC world these days; it is
>> simply a type of window. Assuming you have already defined the word
>> somewhere (such as in the glossary),
>> I would leave it as 'popup' or 'window' but not both.
> As someone else pointed out, a windows and pop-up windows are not the
> same
> thing. And the Save As thingy is a dialog box, not a window.
> A pop-up window is a temporary window that pops-up due to some kind of
> user
> action--generally a click on a link or button--and disappears when the
> user
> clicks elsewhere. It generally does not contain all the components that a
> true window contains: scroll bars, title bar, and so on.
> Peter Kent
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