On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Steven Kurylo
<skurylo+lopsadisc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Dave Close <d...@compata.com> wrote:
>> Steven Kurylo wrote:
>>
>>>Colour?  What is the standard colour for using a word when offering
>>>language selection?  Most of those objections are just as relevant
>>>when using a word.
>>
>> I'll respond further if and when someone actually tries to understand
>> what I've written. I know I'm not always crystal clear, but in this
>> case, I think both Steven and Benjamin are not making a reasonable
>> effort at comprehension.
>>
>> I am definitely not advocating using a word, or anything visible, to
>> specify a language selection.
>
> No, I understand perfectly, but I believe Benjamin already addressed that 
> point.
>
> The technology to do language select automatically has been here for a
> long time, but as far as know it has very little deployment.  I rarely
> see it, other than major sites like google.
>
> So you need a second option, if you care about keeping those other
> users.  So what do you do?
>

And lets not forget the situation where I may want to have two
different pages open at once in different languages.  Far as I know
the browser language support has no options for this.  There are many
sites where I wouldn't want to read their translation when I'm capable
of reading their native language.
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