Think of it this way: if you give me the presentation I'm familiar with, I'll give you your data that much faster. You say that the week starts on Sunday; I am equally adamant about it starting on a Monday, and nothing anyone says will make any of us change our minds.
Therefore, you should support international formats (day, date, time, address, currency, week start) and set these automatically using IP addresses and make it easy for people to change these manually, for the Englishman using a French website, etc. More generally, any application or service that makes use of days, dates, time, currency or address should accommodate local formatting variations. BTW: I've found that the best way to format addresses is to ask people to select their country first, and then present an address form that matches their local format. This increases completion rates. Why? Because it lets you fill in your address the way you're used to, rather than trying to figure out how to reformat it to suit the form you're facing. ________________________________________________________________ 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
