[Pmwiki-users] link icons

[Kass Lloyd]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:26:15 +1000, Jason Grossman
<jason.grossman at staff.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> Christian Ridderstr?m <chr at home.se> wrote:
> 
> > I might be conservative here, but I don't really think icons are always
> > easier to understand.
> 
> You're not just being conservative.  There's a large literature on this
> issue (a google search on "user interface guidelines" would find some
> of it), and a lot of it agrees with your point - icons not generally
> easier to understand ... although they are SOMETIMES, in situations
> which have been described in detail in the literature.  In fact, if I
> remember correctly, practically all of the user interface design
> literature agrees that icons representing actions are not usually a
> good idea.  (Catie or John, can you confirm that?)  For example, the
> "TOG on interface" web site says this.
> 
> Jason G.
> 

Well there has to be a solution that is friendly to the 20% of the
white male population who is color blind, and dosn't interrupt the
natural flow of sentences. I think any punctuation mark is a bad idea
to inject into the middle of a sentence.

Kass