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

[Casey Duncan]

On Mon, 03 May 2004 21:24:46 -0500
Garrett Smith <garrett at mojave-corp.com> 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 think that the intent is clear for label. Label is a standard word for
UI widgets and makes perfect sense to me: +1

As for hint, I'm not so sure. The proposal says that the hint should be
used as a tooltip. Why not just use the name tooltip instead?

-Casey