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I've been happily writing along for a few years using
"window" as a description of everything in the
Windows interface with a title bar, fields, and buttons,
and today a programmer was telling me that when
you can't resize the "window," it's a dialog.
Have I been ignoring a standard naming convention?
What do you call these objects: windows or dialogs?
How much does it matter? (Have I erred egregiously?)
