Re: [Usability]"widget"

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 20:36, Mark Nelson wrote:
> Why Havoc?  It was already stated that in "Human Computer Interaction"
> the word defines the elemenets of the WIMP interface. 

"Human Computer Interaction" is a book whose target audience is computer
scientists, however, as the preface explains.  As with all HCI
designers, Alan and Janet are merely using terminology appropriate to
their users :)

Here, incidentally, is what all the current UI Design Guides for the
major toolkits use:

MS Windows: Controls
Java: Controls
Macintosh: Controls
SGI/Indigo Magic: Controls
GNOME: Controls :)

CUA doesn't really seem to define a generic term, which perhaps isn't
overly surprising as it was originally written for terminal-based
interfaces.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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