On Tue, 6 May 2008 01:50:22 UTC, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 19:19:40 -0500, Dolores Park wrote (in article
> <brddYgxvE0gm-pn2-6I6Hd78kudeq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
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> > Your question (and the ensuing discussion) arises from an incorrect
use of
> > terminology.
> >
> The ECR site under discussion was implemented in Freeway Pro 5, a
WYSIWYG
> website implementation application produced by SoftPress, a British
company.
> The Freeway tools and the Freeway do***entation refer to those seven
"menu
> items" as "buttons".
>
> > So, to answer your question, there is an agreed upon standard for
button
> > behavior but only a generally accepted convention for links.
>
> So it looks like that there is unfortunately some disagreement in the
> website development community over terminology.
That company is free to do***ent their product as they wish. If it is
aimed at those who are not overly conversant with GUI concepts, it may
serve their purposes to call these links "buttons" for the sake of
simplicity. However, if you review the page source, you'll see that
the menu items are substantially identical to the links you'd find on
any webpage (i.e. they are all anchors, as indicated by the <a> tag).
If you'd like a more comprehensive description of anchors and buttons,
see the HTML 4.01 specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/),
in
particular chapters 12 & 17.
BTW... this tool is rather dated in the way it format pages using
tables & transparent GIFs. That was considered fine some years ago
but is now deprecated in favor of using CSS to handle positioning.
BTW2... why is all of the text rendered as GIFs? That technique is
usually reserved for logos and other text that requires an uncommon
type face. It's pretty unusual for text rendered in Times Roman or
the like and can have a downside. If your cellphone has a browser
be sure to check your page for readability on a small screen.
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