From owner-freebsd-www Tue Apr 29 06:31:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA16331 for www-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schubert.promo.de (schubert.Promo.DE [194.45.188.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA16326 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [194.45.188.81] (stefan.Promo.DE [194.45.188.81]) by schubert.promo.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA05616; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:26:59 +0200 X-Sender: stefan@mail.promo.de Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:29:45 +0200 To: John Fieber From: Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: Select a server near you menu Cc: www@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 15:05 Uhr +0200 29.04.1997, John Fieber wrote: >On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Stefan Bethke wrote: >> Sorry, this is a left-over. is more portable; >> is a Netscapism. > >Go for portability. Yup. > >> >* seems to be what   is supposed to be. Does   >> > not work? >> Foo bar makes the words in between not break. Yes, one can use >> Foo bar also. > >  is a standard ISO 8859-1 character. NOBR is a Netscapism. >I strongly prefer the former it works. OK. > >> >* I think the "select your language" option may have some >> > usability problems in that it implies that language >> > selection and mirror selection are independent when, >> > in fact, they are not. Also, having English missing is a >> > problem! >> Well, I'm not too concerned where the server lives, as long as it gives me >> information in a language I can understand. > >I'm not concerned with where the server lives, but I am concerned >that the two controls (mirror and language) interact and the >interface obscures that interaction. The only way the controls >can be truly independent is for each mirror to carry all >languages. > >As long as there is an interaction, I'd rather keep it explicit >as it is with the current mirror list--don't replace a single >control with an obvious and predictable behavior with two >controls whose actual behavior is not as obvious. Of course, >this is just my speculation based on past experience with >usability testing; I could be wrong on this one. :) Good point. > >> And, why not have a part of the page that tells you where you are? >> ("Welcome to the main FreeBSD Web server." or "Willkommen auf dem deutschen >> FreeBSD-Webserver.") > >Definately. > >> I think we should provide for localization in the build process whereever >> it makes sense. > >Paul Richards is working on re-engineering the build process that >should have more "knobs" for local variation. Fine. > >> >See also http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber/bars.html >> I would like to, but as of now there is no such doc... > >Oops. Try bars.gif. Yeah, that's nice. But where's Chuck? :-) Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-0 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/