- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 05:58:39 -0400 (EDT)
- To: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- cc: WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I guess one of the things that occurred to me is that editing is required by the context - icons to identify different kinds of tools, but where all tools are by definition editing tools. The point about proliferation being miortant is a good one - "trash basket" is a phrase that only makes sense to Australians who have grown up on a diet of American television, in a country where we supposedly speak the same language and always did. Yes, I selected the film camera because it is one of the few things that I actualy find truly iconic. (I suspect that most icons whoch work really well are no longer actually relevant ue in language, where the "icons" are metaphors, idioms, similies and so on). cheers Charles On Tue, 1 May 2001, William Loughborough wrote: Using other versions of the "editing" icon with their small deviations will be lost in small icons, which will all look about the same. Also true for the "pencil" ones. The film camera for multimedia might be too archaic too soon but could also actually become an "icon". Whatever gets used most becomes the standard so that the famous "trash basket", "scissors", and "home" get to be iconic through proliferation rather than pertinence.
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