[Zope3-dev] title/description vs. label/hint

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Mon May 3 23:04:58 EDT 2004


On Monday 03 May 2004 22:24, Garrett Smith wrote:
> The proposal
>
>    http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/CleanupOfSchemaAndWidgets
>
> calls for 'label' and 'hint' to be added to IWidget as attributes.
> However, IWidget already uses 'title' and 'description' for these. (The
> proposal's/my claim that widgets display the field title and description
> is wrong -- they use the field info by default if not overridden.)
>
> I prefer the terms 'label' and 'hint' because they more clearly describe
> the attributes' use. But there's also no point to change them if people
> are happy.

I like the new distinction better, especially for the browser widget. So, +1.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training



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