dalehileman
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As an erstwhile writer I suffer this compulsion to know what everything is called. There are probably many applicable dictionaries, this being one
NetLingo The Internet Dictionary
However it doesn't always answer my questions, for instance
1. “Link†is apparently short for “hyperlink,†which is almost anything you click on to access almost anything else. So how do you distinguish one in the form of an icon from one alphanumeric, usually underlined, eg
http://www.gardenbuddies.com/forums/edibles/10150-when-plant-snow-peas.html#post111023
2. A URL is apparently an address for a website. So are the two terms synonyms? or is a URL some special kind of address or vice versa
For instance is a URL simply an address that's easily converted to a hyperlink
A hyperlink in alphanumeric form incidentally is usu identified by being offered in light blue or being underlined. Suppose however I find such a link in the form of an everyday word but I'd like to get rid of the underline so as to use it as ordinary text. In Mac Mail one clicks on (accesses?) “remove link†but the underline remains so how does my correspondent know it's not a hyperlink? unless I laboriously highlight-command-U each time or even retype it
3. When I slide the cursor off the window I get a strip of icons that constitute hyperlinks to favorite websites (eg, Safari, Mail) on a black background. What is this strip called
4. Here is a link to HowStuffWorks
http://ebm.cheetahmail.com/c/tag/hBPaN9rB7uFbtB8hZafNsjAeoos/doc.html?email=
Once having accessed it what do you call such a page as it's displayed on your monitor? Is it called a “windowâ€
……or is it a specific kind of window? or should we use the term, “display†or “page….†or “screenâ€? or even just “messageâ€
5. Somewhat OT but I want to send a link to the sort of window (page? display? Screen?)--typically a commercial message of some sort--described in step 4 above, to a buddy. Of course I can easily Fwd the entire page or window, but suppose instead I want to send him/her only a link
In other words suppose for some reason I have accessed the page but can't find the link by which I did so. Of course I know that many such pages contain such a link, eg, the “here†in
"If you are having trouble viewing this email with images below, click hereâ€
…….which I call a “sublink†and which clicking upon yields its address or URL up at the top of the browser window. (a) But suppose the page or message contains no such sublink under which circumstance is it even possible to find the desired URL, as in the window you access by clicking on the hyperlink in step 4 and
(b) The link “here†of course is the abbreviated form of a URL. What's it called if not simply “abbreviated URLâ€
(c) I have used the word “access†meaning to get by clicking on. Am I using the term correctly
(d) …and is there something better than “click onâ€
….one might remark, “Why Dale, instead of 'click on' why not 'access the link' ?†Thanks fellas, but I'm not accessing the link, I'm accessing the screen (window? message? reply? page? display?) one gets by clicking. Yea, a technicality but
Suppose I want to write another book, this one about the Internet Forum. I can't use just the first word that pops to mind
6. Clicking on a link yields a page or a message such as the HSW message or window etc often containing one or more of what I called “sublink†in step 5. I made up the word of course--but what do you call a link within a document, page, or window which you had accessed using a hyperlink if indeed you don't simply refer to it as “just another linkâ€
7. The sentence containing the sublink “here†originally appeared in the HSW page (window, document), but you won't find it if you access the link I have provided in step 4. That means there must be something special or unique about the sentence or the sublink it contains that HSW doesn't want you to see. What do you call this distinction and why do you suppose HSW doesn't want you to have it
8. In reference to step 6.: (a) Is it necessary or desirable to distinguish amongst these terms: document, page, display, or window etc that I have used so interchangeably? and if so is there a term covering all, and
(b) Using tabs of course only one window (page? Message? Frame?) within a given site is visible at once, but if different sites are open those in the background or not accessed through a tab but not entirely hidden may be brought to the “top" by a single click. Are there terms to distinguish the top one from those underneath
(c) Have I used the term “open†correctly above? because when I “access" such a site, supposedly it is still “open†if hidden as I understand the term “open". In fact can I be using the term “access†correctly? for instance when I click on a link I have surely accessed a site but what term do I use to describe bringing it up from below, that is fully visible, in the forefront
9. What's the difference between the Web and the Internet and is it supposedly proper to capitalize both
For instance from Wiki
Quote:
……are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds.
So why sometimes cap? and sometimes not
10. OT but why in the last week or so has Google abandoned test edit in search box so now we have to highlight then retype every misspelling
Or it it something I did? an inadvertent keystroke
11. Also totally OT but I'd like incidentally to herewith congratulate Word for a text editor tho not as smart as I like that in most respects seems unusually competent in recognizing a misspelled word and suggesting corrections thereto. I'd like to recommend it to the thousands if not tens of thousands of websites and forums totally, grossly incompetent in this respect
State of Mac's editing capabilities
So how would I go about it or is it even possible but if possible even worthwhile
If you're still with me—and if so I congratulate you—the typical Web/Internet Forum participant probably is a better typist than I so making fewer mistakes isn't so bothered as I about the typ;ical edit subroutines as you might gather from the above link
..and could be one reason that the editing cap[abilities of the typical forum is so disastrous……..as so deftly illustrated by sheer chance in the foregoing two misspellings which for some 17 years have completely baffled Mac's Committee on Text Editing
NetLingo The Internet Dictionary
However it doesn't always answer my questions, for instance
1. “Link†is apparently short for “hyperlink,†which is almost anything you click on to access almost anything else. So how do you distinguish one in the form of an icon from one alphanumeric, usually underlined, eg
http://www.gardenbuddies.com/forums/edibles/10150-when-plant-snow-peas.html#post111023
2. A URL is apparently an address for a website. So are the two terms synonyms? or is a URL some special kind of address or vice versa
For instance is a URL simply an address that's easily converted to a hyperlink
A hyperlink in alphanumeric form incidentally is usu identified by being offered in light blue or being underlined. Suppose however I find such a link in the form of an everyday word but I'd like to get rid of the underline so as to use it as ordinary text. In Mac Mail one clicks on (accesses?) “remove link†but the underline remains so how does my correspondent know it's not a hyperlink? unless I laboriously highlight-command-U each time or even retype it
3. When I slide the cursor off the window I get a strip of icons that constitute hyperlinks to favorite websites (eg, Safari, Mail) on a black background. What is this strip called
4. Here is a link to HowStuffWorks
http://ebm.cheetahmail.com/c/tag/hBPaN9rB7uFbtB8hZafNsjAeoos/doc.html?email=
Once having accessed it what do you call such a page as it's displayed on your monitor? Is it called a “windowâ€
……or is it a specific kind of window? or should we use the term, “display†or “page….†or “screenâ€? or even just “messageâ€
5. Somewhat OT but I want to send a link to the sort of window (page? display? Screen?)--typically a commercial message of some sort--described in step 4 above, to a buddy. Of course I can easily Fwd the entire page or window, but suppose instead I want to send him/her only a link
In other words suppose for some reason I have accessed the page but can't find the link by which I did so. Of course I know that many such pages contain such a link, eg, the “here†in
"If you are having trouble viewing this email with images below, click hereâ€
…….which I call a “sublink†and which clicking upon yields its address or URL up at the top of the browser window. (a) But suppose the page or message contains no such sublink under which circumstance is it even possible to find the desired URL, as in the window you access by clicking on the hyperlink in step 4 and
(b) The link “here†of course is the abbreviated form of a URL. What's it called if not simply “abbreviated URLâ€
(c) I have used the word “access†meaning to get by clicking on. Am I using the term correctly
(d) …and is there something better than “click onâ€
….one might remark, “Why Dale, instead of 'click on' why not 'access the link' ?†Thanks fellas, but I'm not accessing the link, I'm accessing the screen (window? message? reply? page? display?) one gets by clicking. Yea, a technicality but
Suppose I want to write another book, this one about the Internet Forum. I can't use just the first word that pops to mind
6. Clicking on a link yields a page or a message such as the HSW message or window etc often containing one or more of what I called “sublink†in step 5. I made up the word of course--but what do you call a link within a document, page, or window which you had accessed using a hyperlink if indeed you don't simply refer to it as “just another linkâ€
7. The sentence containing the sublink “here†originally appeared in the HSW page (window, document), but you won't find it if you access the link I have provided in step 4. That means there must be something special or unique about the sentence or the sublink it contains that HSW doesn't want you to see. What do you call this distinction and why do you suppose HSW doesn't want you to have it
8. In reference to step 6.: (a) Is it necessary or desirable to distinguish amongst these terms: document, page, display, or window etc that I have used so interchangeably? and if so is there a term covering all, and
(b) Using tabs of course only one window (page? Message? Frame?) within a given site is visible at once, but if different sites are open those in the background or not accessed through a tab but not entirely hidden may be brought to the “top" by a single click. Are there terms to distinguish the top one from those underneath
(c) Have I used the term “open†correctly above? because when I “access" such a site, supposedly it is still “open†if hidden as I understand the term “open". In fact can I be using the term “access†correctly? for instance when I click on a link I have surely accessed a site but what term do I use to describe bringing it up from below, that is fully visible, in the forefront
9. What's the difference between the Web and the Internet and is it supposedly proper to capitalize both
For instance from Wiki
Quote:
……are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds.
So why sometimes cap? and sometimes not
10. OT but why in the last week or so has Google abandoned test edit in search box so now we have to highlight then retype every misspelling
Or it it something I did? an inadvertent keystroke
11. Also totally OT but I'd like incidentally to herewith congratulate Word for a text editor tho not as smart as I like that in most respects seems unusually competent in recognizing a misspelled word and suggesting corrections thereto. I'd like to recommend it to the thousands if not tens of thousands of websites and forums totally, grossly incompetent in this respect
State of Mac's editing capabilities
So how would I go about it or is it even possible but if possible even worthwhile
If you're still with me—and if so I congratulate you—the typical Web/Internet Forum participant probably is a better typist than I so making fewer mistakes isn't so bothered as I about the typ;ical edit subroutines as you might gather from the above link
..and could be one reason that the editing cap[abilities of the typical forum is so disastrous……..as so deftly illustrated by sheer chance in the foregoing two misspellings which for some 17 years have completely baffled Mac's Committee on Text Editing