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Re: Web client icon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Sep 3 13:04:13 2002
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:04:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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As befits my previous message, I like #3. I also think that users who are
used to their being a web button in that spot will have little difficulty.
It's only the complete newcomers we need to worry about.
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I'm trying to decide what icon should live on the panel in the web
> browser spot. Right now we have a Netscape icon with "Netscape"
> written below it. In picking a new icon, there's a tension between
> honesty, usability, and cross-platform consistency. Options I can see
> are:
>
> 1. Sacrifice honesty: keep the current icon, but make it start
> mozilla. We'd probably also make the "netscape" command start
> mozilla, if we're going to do this.
>
> 2. Sacrifice consistency and usability: use the Mozilla icon, with
> "Mozilla" written below it. The problem here is that everyone
> has heard of Netscape, but lots of people haven't heard of
> Mozilla, and won't realize that it's a web browser.
>
> 3. Compromise by providing less information and sacrificing a little
> usability: use the Mozilla icon with "WWW" written below it.
> People won't necessarily associate the Mozilla dragon head with
> "web browser", but the "WWW" would probably do.
>
> 4. Compromise by providing less information and sacrificing a little
> honesty: use the Netscape icon with "WWW" written below it.
>
> 5. Find or produce a generic icon for "world wide web," and write
> WWW below it. I don't know how I would go about this. (The IE
> icon is nicely generic, but everyone recognizes it as the IE
> icon, so that's no good. Plus there are probably intellectual
> property issues there.)
>
> I like option 3 myself.
>
> We can talk about this on Wednesday if we have trouble settling it
> here. I will produce an icon for #3, but that doesn't mean we have to
> go with it. (If we pick any option other than #1, I'm also going to
> need to replace the other icons so that the text font is consistent;
> as a bonus, it should be a little more readable as well. Or we could
> go back to PSB and hope we can get them to use the same tools and
> font to produce an icon.)
>
