Visual Guide to Widgets

[Hendrik]

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On Friday 17 September 2004 00:59, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Thursday 16 September 2004 10:34 am, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> > Even more generally I have great trouble with the prepositions 'in' and
> > 'on'. For example do you have buttons in the toolbar or on it?
> > But this is a non-English-speaker problem...
>
> Both can be valid as I understand it.  If the toolbar is understood to be a
> container, you would use "in".  (The ball is in the box)
>
> But if you think of the toolbar as a sort of table that happens to have
> some buttons on top, you would use "on".  (The cup is on the table)
>
> I myself would always use "in" for this particular situation, but I can see
> it going either way.  Don't you love English! ;-)
>
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne

I, non-native as well, tend towards "on". My computer science professor also 
says "on", so that should be fine as well. 
We really need an authority like Webster/Duden/Oxford to give us a unified 
guideline for all the tech-terms(spelling, adverbs, etc), especially in 
languages other than English. 

I remember some computer manuals translated into German from the early 80s. 
They translated everything literally! Quite the horror, most tech people 
today probably would hardly be able to notice that those books concerned 
computers...

So long
Hendrik
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