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> Banana Slightly pedantic, but it's even easier than that if you don't have any elements separating them - you don't even need the id: > Banana This adds convenience on desktop, but it's really annoying not to have it on smaller mobile screens.
(based on discussion 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890631)
I'm really annoyed by those sites that insist on having a non-removable top bar overlaying the text. Because they break the page-down key. You page down, but part of the unread text scoots under the top bar. Arrrg.
Here's one he missed: your "country" dropdown has a list of every country in existence, alphabetically. So for the US you have to scroll down to near the end of the list past hundreds of other countries. Instead, put your audience up top (Canada, US, GB maybe) and then alphabetically list the rest.
You can press U to skip to the Us.
> There can be a whole list of languages in the Accept-Language header, in the order the user prefers them! Use that data, it's there for you to use. Yet it takes only jumping a plane for a few hours to get Google to think I can and want to read Georgian. Google's i18n for anonymous users (I'm not logged in on my phone's browser) is the most ridiculous I've experienced, every border I cross I get a different language…
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> I think that's the point. They're using IP geolocation when the article suggests that the Accept-Language header would be a better choice. That was my point :) If I set up us-en everywhere, don't try to be smarter and just show me everything in English.
From my experience, Chrome installs default to en-US without trying to pick up language settings from your computer. (I'm probably doing it wrong) Not an excuse, but it sounds like they don't trust accept-language to be correct.
Even funnier is when you get Chrome working in the right language, then do a Google search, the results come up in whatever language Google thinks based of IP, then Chrome offers to translate it.
It's so idiotic.
The Play Store is even worse. Some idiot at Google decided that apps with country restrictions should just 404 when you try to access them. So I downloaded an app for my bank. Go travelling. Get security alert update. Try to update? Nope, app not found. Even though it's running on my phone, I can't get to it via Play. Go to the Play website via a proxy and install it? Sure, that works.
I bet if the responsible people were forced to travel or be expats for a bit, this would get coherent quickly.
I'm really annoyed by those sites that insist on having a non-removable top bar overlaying the text. Because they break the page-down key. You page down, but part of the unread text scoots under the top bar. Arrrg.
It's the funny thing about floating navigation; usability testing and A/B testing show that it's good for conversion/engagement/whatnot, but until Firefox fixed it I absolutely hated the pattern for this very reason.
I particularly hate when someone does things like (1) when it should be so I can't middle click it or Ctrl-click it to open in a new tab. Even worse if there's (2) href="#" added, which upon middle click will happily load the page I'm currently on inside the new tab. I have an extension in Firefox which changes the mouse cursor for (1) from pointer (hand), so I can easily distinguish that case, I hope this became a W…
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's anal about redirecting to the canonical host name. Now, let the bike-shedding begin: should the canonical host name be www.foo.com or foo.com?
Here's one he missed: your "country" dropdown has a list of every country in existence, alphabetically. So for the US you have to scroll down to near the end of the list past hundreds of other countries. Instead, put your audience up top (Canada, US, GB maybe) and then alphabetically list the rest.
Actually the solution you're suggesting is one of my pet hates. An alphabetical list of countries should be alphabetical! If you put some countries out of order you just make it more difficult for people to find their country if theirs isn't the one pre-selected. If your audience is mainly US, then by all means pre-select the US, but keep the list alphabetical. If your audience isn't mainly in one country, either don…
I specially agree with the "Download the app now" messages. I hate those because I know how to look those up if I really want to, so just let me get to what I came to this site for.