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Re: scriptingNews outline for 8/13/2000
Author: Nick Sweeney Posted: 8/13/2000; 8:49:41 PM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 8/13/2000 Msg #: 19686 (In response to 19674) Prev/Next: 19685 / 19687
So why did Microsoft have to give them a different name? This may sound trivial but it introduces confusion in a concept that should have been rock solid.Irritation as well as confusion: readers of "International English" have to put up with both the "Favorites" menu and the "Network Neighborhood" (sic) on the Windows desktop: spellings that are guaranteed to provoke the same effect in many Brits as a swarm of bees... at least "Bookmarks" doesn't have that divisive effect.
Personally, I don't think that legal issues had much to do with it: from distant, distant memory, MS wanted to introduce as many elements as possible to the GUI of its newly-acquired browser to "distinguish" it from Netscape. Then again, the 1996 version of Spyglass Mosaic (obtained from the invaluable archive at http://browsers.evolt.org) which became IE1.0 has a "Hotlist" pop-up box and a "Quick Links" menu, so things weren't consistent then either.
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