RE: Preposition at Beginning or End?

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

>No matter who your audience is, there's no good reason for "text box"
--
>or for "drop-down list" in the earlier example. Just "box" and "list,"
>please -- you're telling readers how to perform a task, not teaching
>them the developers' names for user interface elements.

Except that 'drop-down list' or 'drop-down' is a more common term for
the thing than just 'list', so experienced users will be quite happy
with it; while completely inexperienced users, faced with the word
'list', might get confused by the fact that they can't see one.

Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

exony

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