From: Neil Harris (neil@tonal.clara.co.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2006 - 19:34:07 CDT
Andrew West wrote:
> On 11/08/06, Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote:
>> Andrew West <andrewcwest at gmail dot com>
>>
>> >> ... For example, the closed-lock symbol is often seen in Web browsers
>> >> to indicate an https: connection, and on pages to show that a given
>> >> link leads to a secure site.
>> >
>> > And to indicate whether a document is password protected or not, as
>> > for example on the SC2 Document Register page
>> > <http://lucia.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/itscj/servlets/ScmDoc10?Com_Id=02>.
>>
>> Sure. It's all over the place. But is it a character?
>>
>
> Not yet. But I personally think that the open/closed padlock symbols
> have as much right to be encoded as characters as any of the other
> members of the elite Miscellaneous Symbols block. But, on the other
> hand, as Jukka and others have/will point out, most web designers will
> still use an image in preference to a coded character even if such
> symbols are encoded, because of limited font coverage; so some would
> argue that there is not much utility in encoding web symbols. I
> disagree, but can't think of a good counter-argument.
>
> Andrew
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You might also be interested in the list of icon symbols defined in the
freedesktop.org icon naming specification at
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
which is a fairly comprehensive attempt at giving standard names for a
wide range of icons commonly used in computing.
Some examples from this fairly long list include:
document-revert The icon for the action of reverting to a previous
version of a document.
document-save The icon for the save action.
document-save-as The icon for the save as action.
edit-copy The icon for the copy action.
edit-cut The icon for the cut action.
edit-delete The icon for the delete action.camera-video The icon
used for a video or web camera.document-properties The icon for the
action to view the properties of a document in an application.
document-revert The icon for the action of reverting to a previous
version of a document.
document-save The icon for the save action.
document-save-as The icon for the save as action.
edit-copy The icon for the copy action.
edit-cut The icon for the cut action.
audio-card The icon used for the audio rendering device.
audio-input-microphone The icon used for the microphone audio input device.
battery The icon used for the system battery device.
camera-photo The icon used for a digital still camera devices.
camera-video The icon used for a video or web camera.audio-card
The icon used for the audio rendering device.
audio-input-microphone The icon used for the microphone audio input device.
battery The icon used for the system battery device.
camera-photo The icon used for a digital still camera device
-- Neil
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