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..

	22 16.000000 16.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 55 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/SmallAppIcon.tiff 17 SmallAppIcon.tiff¬	SmallAppIcon.tiff
	22 16.000000 16.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 58 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/SmallFolderIcon.tiff 20 SmallFolderIcon.tiff¬	SmallFolderIcon.tiff	
	22 16.000000 16.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 56 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/SmallHTMLIcon.tiff 18 SmallHTMLIcon.tiff¬	SmallHTMLIcon.tiff
	22 16.000000 16.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 61 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/SmallHypermailIcon.tiff 23 SmallHypermailIcon.tiff¬	SmallHypermailIcon.tiff
	22 24.000000 24.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 57 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/SmallNewspaper.tiff 19 SmallNewspaper.tiff¬	SmallNewspaper.tiff
	22 16.000000 16.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 59 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/SmallPictureIcon.tiff 21 SmallPictureIcon.tiff¬	SmallPictureIcon.tiff
	22 16.000000 16.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 56 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/SmallTextIcon.tiff 18 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

                                  NEXT IN LINE staff technical writer
  
  		20 A A 0  22 48.000000 48.000000 0  A 10 A 20 A B 59 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/Return.addresses.tiff 21 Return.addresses.tiff 20 A B 54 /khare/Library/eText/GingeryTiff.etfd/Return.addresses 16 Return.addresses¬	To copy these addresses
	to your own addressbooks under NEXTSTEP 3.[23], hold
	down the Alt key while dragging from this addressbook to
	your normal one, or merely put this one in your directory,
	rename it appropriately, and thereafter hold down the
	Control key while dragging from this addressbook to another
	to make a link  from the entries in this addressbook.

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