On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:49 +1100, Peter Harvey wrote: > Addendum 2: Change "Bookmarks" menu to "Links" ? I agree, but for a different reason (though this seems to be the proper time to discuss it): I've watched a computer newbie using Firefox on Windows, and one thing that is impossibly hard to explain is what a "bookmark" is. To put it quite bluntly, "bookmark" is a horrible metaphor. Imagine reading a book, putting a bookmark in it, and waking up to find that half the words have changed and the bookmark is 1/3 of the way through the book, whereas it was 2/3 of the way through last night. The name "bookmark" implies that the next time you read the page you'll remove the bookmark, only to place another one when you next stop reading. Plus, who honestly thinks of the Internet as anything even remotely resembling a book? Who stops reading a web page halfway and actually bothers to read the other half some other time? For those reasons, I think Microsoft did something right by naming them "favorites". But I think "links" would be an even better term, because *everybody* understands the term "link" (you might call it *mis*understanding, but if it's clearer, why not use it?). I suggest a mass renaming. That would be annoying for translators, but the translations of "bookmark" to other languages could actually stay the same -- this is only the English version I'm talking about. Comments? -- Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>
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