正如其他人所说，保留软盘图标，不要担心。在我住的地方，这是火车过马路的警告标志:

大约有50年没有蒸汽机车了，但每个人都知道这是火车的标志。同样地，50年后，当你的文件存储在轨道上的谷歌服务器上时，每个人都会知道软盘是保存数据的象征。

你用过HLSS吗?他们使用SD卡的图像作为保存图标，但大多数情况下，我无法在工具栏上选择它，必须到File -> save来保存。

所以，他们提供了一个现代的替代品，但它不像3.5英寸的软盘图标那么好用。

About Face的第17章“Rethinking Files and Save”介绍了这一点。Alan Cooper是著名的可用性专家，他的著作很有影响力。他的观点基本上是，当我们强迫用户考虑实现时，我们就会陷入麻烦。以下是一段简短的摘录:

In the world of digital technology, the place where implementation-model thinking most strikingly rears its ugly head is the management of files and the concept of "save." If you have ever tried to teach your mother how to use a computer, you will know that difficult doesn't really do the problem justice. Things start out all right: You start up the word processor and type a couple sentences. She's with you all the way -- it's like writing on paper. But when you click the Close button, up pops a dialog box asking "Do you want to save changes?" You and Mom hit a wall together. She looks at you and asks, "What does this mean? Is everything okay?" This problem is caused by software that forces people to think like computers by unnecessarily making them confront the internal mechanisms of data storage. This isn't just a problem for your mother; even sophisticated computer users can easily become confused or make mistakes. People spend thousands of dollars on hard- ware and software just to confront impertinent questions like "Do you really want me to save this document that you've been working on all afternoon?" and must remember to use to the Save As... command when what they really want to do is work on a copy of the document.

有必要考虑如何简化或消除“保存”的比喻。

在Stack Overflow上，我们可以“发布一个答案”或“添加评论”或“询问你的问题”。每次我们都真正地“保存”到数据库中，但是每次的比喻都略有不同。发帖、补充、询问。我想到了像iTunes这样的软件，我相信它没有“将音乐保存到磁盘”的概念。你只需向它添加音乐，它就会被保存。根据软件执行的任务类型，可能有不同的比喻比保存更合适。

我应该提一下，我还没有真正回答你的问题，我自己在我的网络应用程序中使用过软盘图标，或者一个只写着“保存”的大按钮。目前，我们在很多情况下都被它困住了，但随着软盘驱动器的消亡，它变得越来越荒谬。但是，当拨号界面的电话已经几十年没有普及使用时，我们也说我们“拨号”电话。

IMO, icons are useful because they're constant symbols we can associate with different actions. In that sense, the floppy is very appropriate simply because it is nearly universal. Never once in my life have I seen an interface with unfamiliar icons (no text at all) and been able to figure out what it does (I'm looking at you, Mac OS). I think even if you come up with an image that is more true to what is actually going on, such as a picture of a hard drive, you'll cause far more confusion than if you left it alone. Even if people such as myself can identify the icon as a hard drive, that doesn't tell us what you're going to do, it just means a hard drive is somehow involved...

It's funny that I found this discussion because I was looking for a standard 'save' icon I could download to replace the 'new and improved' icon that UtlraEdit started using and which was too difficult to pick out on the toolbar. Yes, it is outdated, but everybody recognizes the 3.5" floppy disk image as representing 'save'! Yes, programmers should not be doing things because 'that's the way it's always been done' but icons are language and not methodology. Don't invent a new word just because it would be cool unless your aim is to hide what you are saying from the previous generations.

不幸的是，这个软盘图标已经成为保存文档的通用符号。它甚至被用在微软Word 2007中，几乎原封不动。以任何方式更改它，都可能使用户无法将其识别为保存符号。