[3449] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Web client icon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 3 17:09:48 2002
From: dryfoo@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <200209032106.RAA04665@thelonious.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: release-team@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:38:45 EDT."
<200208312038.QAA04945@error-messages.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 17:06:11 -0400
} 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.
} From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
}...
} 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.
I also think option #3 is the best of the lot, so far.
Regarding the stupid-looking Mozilla icon being confusing because it
will replace the Netscape icon: I think for your "complete newcomers",
now that MS apparently Rules the World, anything that doesn't look like
the IE icon would be somewhat confusing anyway, and so a Mozilla icon
won't be much more offputting to newbies than Netscape would have been.
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