Hi
>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 ? and english? > 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 I like the latter more.... would it not be a version of the dreaded blinking page? and wouldn't it produce the undesirable effect of making the visitor try to stab at her language as it flickered by? :-) >:) > cheers Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
