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Subject:Re: A GUI terminology question From:Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- LYNX -dot- DAC -dot- NEU -dot- EDU> Date:Sun, 9 May 1999 08:35:17 -0400
"Mark L. Levinson" wrote:
>
> I have a GUI terminology question. Likely you're familiar with tabbed
> pages: at any given time, you see one page complete with tab, plus the
> tabs for all the other pages in the series; clicking on any tab brings
> its page to the front.
>
> Maybe you've seen a window that works the same except with icons
> instead of tabs? Rather than being attached to a tab, each page is
> represented by an icon in a bar next to where the pages are stacked,
> and clicking on any icon brings its page to the front.
>
> If you call the tabbed pages tabbed pages, what do you call the
> tabless tabbed pages that are controlled by the icons?
>
"The <name of icon> page" is what I'd call it. If that
didn't work and there's one single word that effectively
identifies the page, I'd use that in place of <name of
icon>. For example, if there's a magnifying glass as an icon
(no words), I'd say "the Search page".
