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

Casey Duncan casey at zope.com
Tue May 4 14:00:10 EDT 2004


On Tue, 04 May 2004 18:43:51 +0200
Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:

> 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...

Ok, I'm fine with hint.

-Casey




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