re: Style Guide vs. GUI terminology

Subject: re: Style Guide vs. GUI terminology
From: "ROGERS, MARTHA (CONTRACTOR)" <MARTHA -dot- ROGERS -at- DFAS -dot- MIL>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:42:21 -0500


John Posada wrote:
"select an application menu"
"click" an application button
"press" a keyboard key

Delarking (thanks Kent Christensen) to comment:

Because our developers are supposed to provide a keyboard equivalent for every interaction users can perform with a mouse (Isn't this a Windows standard?), our user docs are input-device-neutral. Why say "click an application button" when every command button, menu item, check box, etc., can be manipulated via keyboard as well as mouse?

And BTW, does anyone else feel "GUI" is being used all too frequently everywhere these days?

Martha
(who larks to avoid flames and being ignored!)

And lastly, a quick Google search on GUI yielded a link to the Golfing Union of Ireland Web site.

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