Iconitis

[JJS]

In article <11555 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>From article <1930 at dataio.Data-IO.COM>, by bright at Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright):
>>
>> The arrows on the ends
>> of scroll bars are an ideal example of correct use of icons. I don't know
>> anyone who misunderstood that.
>
>[scroll bar icon problems deleted]
>
>Oh well, at least the file
>moves in the expected direction.
>

Even THIS isn't always true!  I was surprised to find out that in the SunView
scrollbar area, a down-arrow means "scroll the file down", and that is exactly
the opposite of "move the window down in the file", which is what I expected
from working with the Mac and MS-Windows.

	-- JJS