- From: Jason <jeacott@hardlight.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:42:04 +1030
- To: ebruchez@orbeon.com
- CC: www-forms@w3.org
delphi also uses message meaning dialog or message, but then the .net designer is the same person. Erik Bruchez wrote: > > 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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