On Thursday 20 January 2005 23:24, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> >On Thursday 20 January 2005 14:48, Tamblyne wrote:
> >> In the case of the OOo site, with so many Native Language projects,
> >> the drop down list makes sense, but it also means that the "pointer"
> >> to that list needs to be as clear as possible so that people can
> >> recognize it as what they are looking for.
> >
> >How about a small image of a flag (one for each NL) which is changed
> >by a piece of javascript every few seconds. This may be too much as it
> >would draw your eye to it, but ...
>
> The argument we have with the flag--don't know if it still stands--is
> that recent imperialistic activities notwithstanding, flags still refer,
> by and large, to nations, not languages.
>
> Now, if all French speaking people had the same flag.....
But what if we included all flags submitted and agreed by all NL groups e.g.
not only the French flag, but those of the other countries who speak french ?
Or maybe better : strings representing the relevant language in it's own
language rotated every 2/3 seconds Francais -> Ilatiano -> Deutsch ->
(Simplified Chinese) -> Xhosa -> Czeshi -> etc :)
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