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Microsoft has just moved the old URL and revised this whole site.
You'll see an HTMLHelp-style interface (very cool and new), then click
on Books, then the Windows Interface Guidelines. It works -- I just
tried it. Unfortunately, though, the new HTML interface doesn't let
you bookmark anything but the shell. Well, at least it works........
Jane Bergen
----- Original Message -----
From: Wollenberger, David <David -dot- Wollenberger -at- STERLING -dot- COM>
To: <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 6:29 PM
Subject: Online Windows Guidelines for Software Design
>I am documenting an application that runs under windows and the
developers
>are attempting to adhere to the guidelines established and published
by
>Microsoft in their book The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software
>Design. Do many of you use this also to check on your developers. I
have
>questions such as "If it is Status Bar, then is it Tool Bar or
Toolbar?"
>Obviously, it is Toolbar, but I found that out by pulling the View
menu down
>in Outlook. In this case, the answer was easy to find, but in the
next case,
>it might not be so easy. I want a guide that will tell me this type
of info
>quickly, which means online. Does anyone use an online version of
this
>publication, or do you just use the MS Manual of Style for these
issues (and
>BTW, the online MS Manual had no listing for Toolbar).
>
>Thanks,
>
>David
>
>David Wollenberger
>
>Technical Writer
>
>Sterling Software, Inc. * Information Management Division
>5900 Canoga Ave * Woodland Hills, CA 91367
>(818) 716-1637, x270 * FAX: (818) 703-8529
>
>david -dot- wollenberger -at- sterling -dot- com
>
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