Always ALWAYS do for the user what you can do for them. Auto-detect and provide -some- way to second guess the machine. But don't expect a lot of people to second guess.
The best language picker is the one the user never sees. If you can't auto-detect, and you almost always can, a decent picker would be one that makes it easy to find the most common choices. And possible to find the least common. English - French - German - Spanish - Pig Latin - Klingon In the respective languages of course. Followed by a select box with all of them in alphabetical order, even the ones you selected to break out into links. Best of all worlds, I think. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42726 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
