I’ve been having a discussion today about a ‘behavior’ with some writers that annoys me. Situations often crop up with our documentation where a term or other phrase within the docs needs to be replaced with a different term or phrase. This usually occurs because of an update – something in the software changed name [...]
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Why ‘find and replace’ doesn’t work for documentation
Posted in usability, work, writing, tagged usability, writing on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
GUI elements and terminology
Posted in usability, work, writing, tagged documentation, eclipse, GUI, interfaces, terminology, tooling, usability, work, writing on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One thing I find that makes writing difficult is the confusing mass of terminology around GUI interface elements such as buttons, menus, pages, windows, tabs and so on. Many of the tools that I work with have standard elements that have standard names. For example in the Eclipse platform the main ones are workbench windows, perspectives, editors and [...]
