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

Philipp von Weitershausen philipp at weitershausen.de
Tue May 4 12:43:51 EDT 2004


Casey Duncan wrote:
>>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

Same here: +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?

Because 'tooltip' is just one way of displaying a hint. I could imagine 
others, since widgets are not necessarily HTML widgets...

Philipp




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