OT: use of terms - screen, page, and window

[Tammy Van Boening]

For all the writers on this list who have had to define a solid list of
terms in their Styles and Standards:


Working on a design doc., some of which will translate into the User's
guide information. My developer's are referring to everything as a
screen. However, I am working in an HTML-rendered environment, so I
would like to use "page", especially since (as per MS's Manual of Style
for Tech. Pubs), a "screen" is defined as the graphic portion of  a
visual output device and this definition cross-references display and
monitor. For the "pop-ups" that may open when a user clicks on an option
on the page, the developers are using the term window. At other gigs, we
have used dialog box, pop-up dialog box, pop-up, and pop-up window, so
obviously, the terminology can be all over the board. Summation - I am
wanting to use the following terms:

Page
Window (for the classic pop-up available on a web page)
Tabs (available on the page) 

Any thoughts, suggestions, comments, disagreements, comments from
similar experiences?

TIA,

TVB


Tammy Van Boening
Engineering Technical Writer
InsureWorx, now a Fiserv Company
303-729-7733
tvanboening at insureworx.com
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