Re: The message action is for messages, not arbitrary dialogs

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Erik Bruchez wrote:
> 
>> o I like explicit over implicit. If you say "message", you mean
>>   message. I don't know of any user interface framework that uses the
>>   term "message" to also mean "dialog".
>>
> 
> Google MessageBox. .NET, SWT, and ASP.NET all use this term instead of 
> DialogBox. Possibly they think of MessageBox as a restricted form of 
> DialogBox just for messages; i.e. an alert. I'm not sure, but certainly 
> the word message is sometimes used in place of the word dialog.

I stand corrected. Still, that's bad naming in all those cases IMO.

-Erik

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