Re: [Usability] 'Favorites' vs. 'Bookmarks'

[Taylor Hayward <taylorhayward yahoo com>]

A bookmark is a concrete concept. Favorites is not.
Thus the function of a Bookmark is more easy to grasp
by novice users, and should be used throughout.

-Taylor


--- Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> wrote:
> Paul Joseph Thompson wrote:
> > 
> 
> > Hmmnn... I think "Shortcuts" is a bad idea as it
> would confuse people
> > from the windows world who think of a
> favorite/bookmark and a
> > shortcut as different things.
> 
> This is true, but they only think that because M$
> told them to...
> conceptually there's little difference.
> 
> Nonetheless, you're probably right-- it doesn't
> really make sense to
> invent a new word when most apps are already using a
> widely-accepted one
> anyway.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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