Errors-To: bgingery@Wyoming.COM

Date: Tue, 7 Feb 95 12:24:19 -0700

From: Bruce Gingery <bruce%tssslab@TotSysSoft.com>

To: webstep@mail.xent.caltech.edu

Subject: Icons and links (was: Re: html and htmld tiffs) (NeXTmail)

Reply-To: webstep@mail.xent.caltech.edu

> greg@afs.com > Also Dave, are there enough pixels to include a

> greg@afs.com > representation of the NXHelpLink button somewhere

So long as an icon is rendered with button edges, or an imagemap with SOME kind of border, I don't see the need to include a NXHelpLink button in the icon.

On the other hand, with the NXHelpLink as an option, perhaps a standardly selected option within rendered html, the carry-over from NeXT help and other uses of NXHelpLinks (i.e. dev docs index) provides a familiar visual target for the monochrome NEXTSTEP user even if it is rendered immediately adjoining colored text.

For LIST Bullets, I'm originally was using (on-system)

smallApp.tiff -> /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/smallApp.tiff

smallFile.tiff -> /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/smallFile.tiff

smallFolder.tiff -> /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/smallFolder.tiff

AND... now have replaced/added..

SmallAppIcon.tiff

SmallAppIcon.tiff

SmallFolderIcon.tiff

SmallFolderIcon.tiff

SmallHTMLIcon.tiff

SmallHTMLIcon.tiff

SmallHypermailIcon.tiff

SmallHypermailIcon.tiff

SmallNewspaper.tiff

SmallNewspaper.tiff

SmallPictureIcon.tiff

SmallPictureIcon.tiff

SmallTextIcon.tiff SmallTextIcon.tiff

in addition to using some of the small .xbm's commonly available for ftp, index, menu, movie, sound, and telnet.

While a Workspace standard Icon is a good idea, flexibility in composition must remain for inline rendering of active images, whether IMG SRC or IMAP. Generally, stylistically, use of a lot of small buttons turns a serious display into a rebus, while sparse links on a long predominantly text page really benefit from an occasional iconized link.

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Bruce Gingery Total System Software Cheyenne, WY

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