why are website language switchers in the current language?
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Most web developers are morons in the sense that most people are morons. They're not especially moronic.
A lot of problems on the web aren't coming from the developers. They're management pushing for stuff.
Like, at an old company the UI had really bad mouse tunnels (mouse over menus and sub menus that close if you mouse out). Terrible interface. But someone in management liked it and no one would approve changing it. Easy to look at it and say we're all morons, but most of the stupid there was from leadership.
Like, at an old company the UI had really bad mouse tunnels (mouse over menus and sub menus that close if you mouse out). Terrible interface. But someone in management liked it and no one would approve changing it. Easy to look at it and say we’re all morons, but most of the stupid there was from leadership.
If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn't happen. Also, many design choices are entirely on the web developer. Thus morons. I'm not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you're wasting your time on me.
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The languages in a language menu should each be written in their own language. So German should be "Deutsch", English should be "English", Japanese should be "日本語", etc.
I could live with that, as long as the language menu button itself is labeled in English and not e.g. "Sprache ändern"
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Which flag do we use for English?
I won't allow the stars and stripes
Usually services in English will have English (US) and English (UK). Sorry to all the other English-speaking countries out there, though.
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Like, at an old company the UI had really bad mouse tunnels (mouse over menus and sub menus that close if you mouse out). Terrible interface. But someone in management liked it and no one would approve changing it. Easy to look at it and say we’re all morons, but most of the stupid there was from leadership.
If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn't happen. Also, many design choices are entirely on the web developer. Thus morons. I'm not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you're wasting your time on me.
If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn’t happen.
Thus, it's more than just the web developers
. Product needs to have a backbone to stand up to their boss, too. I fought really hard to get rid of the mouse tunnels at that job, but was blocked by product and one of the directors of eng. It was mostly [office] political nonsenseAlso, many design choices are entirely on the web developer.
Not at most of the companies I've worked out. There's a design person or team. Eng can give feedback, but it's pretty rare for them to be given a blank check.
I’m not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you’re wasting your time on me.
That's fine. Some web developers are morons, but some of everyone are morons. We can partially agree.
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I'm not saying it's a good idea, i just see it a lot. Maybe I'm only paying attention to this in Europe, where it's a bit more clear-cut, rather than tracking down population data to select a template option on a website for something like a cafe menu.
And I'm not saying it never happens, a lot of bad ideas are happening all the time.
But if you think anything regarding flags, languages and countries is clear cut in Europe, it's mainly because you aren't paying attention. -
If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn’t happen.
Thus, it's more than just the web developers
. Product needs to have a backbone to stand up to their boss, too. I fought really hard to get rid of the mouse tunnels at that job, but was blocked by product and one of the directors of eng. It was mostly [office] political nonsenseAlso, many design choices are entirely on the web developer.
Not at most of the companies I've worked out. There's a design person or team. Eng can give feedback, but it's pretty rare for them to be given a blank check.
I’m not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you’re wasting your time on me.
That's fine. Some web developers are morons, but some of everyone are morons. We can partially agree.
That’s fine. Some web developers are morons, but some of everyone are morons. We can partially agree.
Partially agreed
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If people really insist then at least have a flag emoji
Unicode consortium stopped accepting new flags. Far, far from all current languages are in there. Don't expect there to be an emoji for every language, and fewer and fewer as the current version ages and flags change
And that's regardless of that flags are often a poor language selector (south african flag can mean a lot of things), but if you insist then SVGs of what regions you want to support might be a good replacement
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Which flag do we use for English?
I won't allow the stars and stripes
Why would they use the American flag for English? We speak American. /s kinda?
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The product owner often doesn't understand technology well enough to know that mapping labels and sorting are different. They don't know what they don't know. The SM needs to help bridge that gap.
Sure, part of the job of the SM is to teach a PO that they need to research the market, but bridging the gap sounds like your saying the SM should find these things out for themselves and that's just not true. The SM by definition is less technically minded that the PO. They deal with processes, data and people, not with product specs and market research.
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The customer gets what the customer wants.
I've tried countless times to convince them to just use the browser locale, but most of them somehow keep insisting on using geolocation...
I wonder if they just want some more data they can then sell off to others.
