Re: Select, choose, click style guide

[Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>]

Kathleen MacDowell wrote:
> (Long answer to short question)
> 
> As much as possible, I "try" to write complete thoughts and sentences.
> If you think about it, "click the frabitx" is meaningless when you're
> referring to using a mouse (and I have no idea how the same action
> would be done without one, as someone mentioned doing). I would
> compare this to calling x = y to x equals y (which is definitely not
> the correct interpretation, even though that was what I learned).
> 

Sorry, I'm afraid I still don't quite understand.
Why is "click the frabitx meaningless when you're
using a mouse" but "click on" isn't?

-- Janice

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