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

On 10/19/2011 11:19 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 07:04 AM, Greywolf wrote:
>
>> On 18/10/2011 3:25 AM, Francisco wrote:
>> [snip musings]
>>>
>>> "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.
>
> EXCEPT that some/many/all older Dodge vehicles use left-hand threads for
> the wheel lugs on the...oh crap, I can't remember the correct side; if I
> need to loosen them I'll just have to inspect :-(
>
>  > For that matter "clockwise" is anarbitrary 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.
>
> Excellent!
>
If everyone went along with that theory, then we would never have even 
discovered the benefits of fire, let along developed the wheel.