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I don't understand what "chip" means in this context? When did I miss the boat on all this "chip" business? A URL has a thing called a chip? What?
by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I don't understand what "chip" means in this context? When did I miss the boat on all this "chip" business?
A URL has a thing called a chip?
What?
- MichaelGG 12y agoI was confused too, I think they mean "small button" - you can click the box that says Amazon.com (in their screenshot) to get the URL textbox.
- nevir 12y agoChip is a UI term (that widget is a chip, names styled as blocks in a To: field are chips, etc)
- userbinator 12y agoIs there a reason to use that though? From some quick Googling, I can't find any references to it. Also, there is already a term for a piece of a UI that you can click on to do something, one that doesn't have over a dozen other overloaded meanings (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chip http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chip ), and one that users would be far more familiar with: "button".
- qwerty_asdf 12y agoThanks! I've never heard that expression before. I'd be curious to know where it's usage comes from. It sounds like vague, new-school slang.