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I didn't like the post as much as I expected to. The floppy disk as an icon for save is a legitimate complaint, in the sense that it is early technology that h
by davidjohnstone 14y ago
I didn't like the post as much as I expected to.
The floppy disk as an icon for save is a legitimate complaint, in the sense that it is early technology that has been deprecated by later technology, and [almost] nobody will ever use one again.
That said, good luck finding a new icon. The difficulty is that the concept of "saving" only came about with computers, and unlike zooming or even grouping things together in folders, finding a real-life pictorial representation of saving is... difficult.
But the others... The last time I checked, bookmarks, calendars, envelopes, magnifying glasses, and screwdrivers all exist in the real world and are used regularly by a lot of people, and they aren't going to go away any time soon.
Also, it's not hard to find microphones today that look a lot like the one in the icon.
- DanBC 14y agoI'm glad we're using a floppy disk rather than the alternative (dead now) "piggy bank". Imagine how confused most people are seeing a tiny pig in the tool bar. It's an effort to get from "little pig" to "piggy bank" to "save". And that's for people with english as a first language.
- shanselman 14y agoTrue, I was stretching on many of them. I ended up not having a good way to end the post, and it seemed like I was saying that "these are all old" when I meant to say "these won't always be around."