> Does your 7 year old daughter know what a floppy disk icon does? Yes. >Does she know what the floppy disk is though? Possibly (she's into retro-gaming, and

> Does your 7 year old daughter know what a floppy disk icon does? Yes. >Does she know what the floppy disk is though? Possibly (she's into retro-gaming, and occasionally uses my Amiga). But it's not actually important because the icon means save. Anacronisms like that are a part of the way that language (both verbally and non-verbally) develop. I doubt that many people have ever written on a scroll. But using the word in the context of "scroll bar" isn't confusing as a result. >Might as well draw a random squiggle and call it "save". Except for the fact that we already have an image that means save that everyone understands. We could equally make up a brand new word for "scroll bar" to remove its anacronistic link, but what would be the point?