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Subject:A GUI terminology question From:"Mark L. Levinson" <mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Sun, 9 May 1999 15:10:09 +0200
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?
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