On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:31 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 March 2016 at 22:32, Philippe Mouawad <[email protected]> > wrote: > > from user point of view, a user does not know attribute names, > > But they won't necessarily know the exact name for each attribute > either, and the order depends on the exact name. > They are hopefully reasonably common names for the values, but there's > no standard for the names. > [Unlike say the names of countries or languages.] > > If I take the french example, alphabetical order seems the best option. As attribute names are not known, documentation references english labels.
An alternative option is to always use the English (documentation) sort order , this way people can refer to it in other languages and select the options. > > > So I > > suppose the best presentation is probably an alphabetical sort , this is > > how I usually proceed in the Ux is use. > > But the problem is that it is Locale-specific. > > Further, if we change the translation of any attribute, the order may > change. > > Whereas if we sort by attribute name, the order is fixed across > languages, and people can get used to where they are. > > > On Monday, March 14, 2016, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Are there any other opinions on this? > >> > >> Only Philippe has commented that he prefers ordering by Locale-specific > >> text. > >> > >> I would prefer ordering by attribute name, as that does not vary when > >> switching languages. > >> It's also not very different in the English version (probably because > >> the attribute names are in English) > >> > >> So it's not clear what the order should be. > >> > >> Comments please. > >> > > > > > > -- > > Cordialement. > > Philippe Mouawad. > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
