Re: "New action" or similar name instead of "New tab"?

On 18/10/2011 3:25 AM, Francisco wrote:
[snip musings]
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> "Page", "Site"...


I disagree. "Tab" is what it looks like, at least to those of us who 
still remember file folders, and even occasionally still use them. ;-)

But a basic rule of standards is "Don't change what the users have come 
to expect." The fact is that for most of our devices standards are 
inherently arbitrary. They have become standards only because of habit, 
and decades or centuries of use. Eg. clockwise to drive a screw, 
anti-clockwise to extract it. For that matter "clockwise" is an 
arbitrary standard.

Once such an arbitrary standard has become habitual, there is very 
little if any reason to change it, and many reasons to keep it.

In this case, there's no point in changing what millions of users have 
come to expect.

HTH
Wolf K.