Talk:Toast (computing)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Origin?

What is the origin of that word (both symbolic and historic usage in user interfaces)?

In the French equivalent of that wiki page, the word Toast is credited (but unfortunately without a reference) to a Microsoft employee who described the name being linked to how that graphical element is similar to how toasts come out of a toaster.

Even though this may be stating the obvious, this is not strictly speaking obvious since that display method is not described in the article, more essentially since it is not an essential characteristic of a toast ("a toast is a small, informational window [...] notify users of various kinds of events" is the essence of a toast): in the Android-based user interfaces for instance, it is generally accepted that toasts fade in and out. Therefore it should make sense to mention both the symbolic and historical origin of the word.--138.231.140.26 (talk) 06:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]