RE: Read only dialog box?

["Barbara Philbrick" <caslon -at- alltel -dot- net>]

It's not a developer, it's an auditor, and a Swedish one at that (sometimes
she sticks on points that native English speakers gloss over; it's actually
been quite instructive from a "writing for English as a second language"
perspective --- she asked me to explain the "ing" ending, but that's another
thread!) "Dialog" to her needs to be two ways (she doesn't buy the "clicking
OK is a form of dialog") and wants to call them pop-ups.
 
And don't even get me started on trying to get auditors to lose (s), within,
obtain, and a(nother) from their texts...

Picking my battles,


Barb




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Peter Sturgeon
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Subject: Re: Read only dialog box?

It's a dialog box--the war is over. Just be glad your developers don't
distinguish between modal and non-modal dialog boxes.

Follow Geoff's advice: Describe the content, not the container.

For example, "A message notifies you when the backup has completed."


--- Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:

> Barbara Philbrick reports: <<One of my clients doesn't want to call 
> dialog boxes "dialog boxes" if the information in them is read-only.>>

Focusing on that action or task is more important than on what to call it.


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