I said none of that. I don’t know why you’d assume any of the above from an obviously simplified laymans’ explanation of the concept of a download. I’m well aware of this, but my target audience may not be. Write for your audience, not for you.
But why are you focusing on the download aspect? The subject at hand is an icon for saving, and saving can happen as in those several scenarios, if not more.
So, do you think a download icon like that fits them all? Especially those that don’t involve your local disk at all?
Let’s stick to the subject, above injecting tangential technical correction asides. 👍
Something completely abstract, like this
That’s a download button
To download is still to save to one’s disk.
Not if you’re saving to the cloud…
That’s called an upload, literally the opposite
Then it points up.
You upload to save to the cloud
You have multiple scenarios. Save…
You think these all apply to the concept of “download”?
I said none of that. I don’t know why you’d assume any of the above from an obviously simplified laymans’ explanation of the concept of a download. I’m well aware of this, but my target audience may not be. Write for your audience, not for you.
But why are you focusing on the download aspect? The subject at hand is an icon for saving, and saving can happen as in those several scenarios, if not more.
So, do you think a download icon like that fits them all? Especially those that don’t involve your local disk at all?
Let’s stick to the subject, above injecting tangential technical correction asides. 👍
*Because *I replied to a comment that says “that’s a download button”.
I made no other comment, and what I said is correct.
I’m blocking you to stop you from wasting any more of my time because you can’t read.
lol, but when they said “that’s a download button”, they meant that it doesn’t make sense as a save button, for those reasons I mentioned.
You can’t read.
Downloading is specifically not saving in this metaphor. That’s essentially making a record copy, not overwriting the source.
I’ve seen something like that used, and I think it fits the bill just fine!
Agreed, but make the bottom bit look like a drive or server (e.g. a rectangle with a dot or two).
Chrome uses that for “download”.
Which is essentially what saving is.
Mmm … not exactly. If I’m creating a document in a local application, “download” is not applicable there, where “save” is.
For 99% of users, the specifics make no difference at all.
It’s closer to reality than a floppy disk icon, that’s for sure.
They meant that downloading is a type of saving.