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We use the floppy disk for the save icon, but we don't use floppies anymore. Just something that has been bothering me.
by utoku 16y ago
We use the floppy disk for the save icon, but we don't use floppies anymore. Just something that has been bothering me.
- nixy 16y agoWhat would you propose as a "save" icon?
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- pornel 16y agoSame button that closes the window. Seems to work for Mac OS X.
- kevinbutler 16y agoSave everything. Don't make the user click save. Even better if you can allow a rollback to any point in time. Better still if you can roll back to significant changes, with significant determined in terms of the domain context. kb
- michael_dorfman 16y agoWe also don't throw our floppy disks into a trash can to eject them, but that's what the "intuitive" Mac interface proposed, all those years ago. If these things bother you, you probably shouldn't study etymology. Most words (and concepts) retain leftover residues of previous strata of meaning. Such is change...
- blacksmythe 16y ago>> what the "intuitive" Mac interface proposed, all those years ago. That was never intuitive. I thought that was a bad choice from the beginning.
- utoku 16y agoActually, studying etymology (which probably doesn't stand for icons yet) is fun because of that reason. Even our letters are left overs from old icons. Alpha for the ox, Beta for the house. I am just suggesting that the floppy probably won't have its letter someday.
- iconfinder 16y agoI have made a blog post related to the choice of metaphors for icons: http://www.iconfinder.com/blog/4/ http://www.iconfinder.com/blog/4/
- tyng 16y agoYou made a good point. Those floppy disk icons probably mean nothing to Gen X. I'll refrain from using that icon on my websites/apps from now on.