Re: Interesting use of flags to indicate languages

It is an ok solution if you believe users don't mind waiting to see if their
flag comes up...

It still has the problem that some countries are multilingual so their flags
would appear under multiple languages.
And unless the flags of a multilingual country are synchronized to appear at
the same time, a user has to watch multiple lines to see if his preferred
language appears in the right slot, and if not, then look at the line for the
secondary choice, etc.

This particular site doesnt have many languages so it might be ok, although
they are still missing for example, all of the flags for countries that use
english... Whereas simply stating "english" would have been recognized by all
of them...

tex

Martin Duerst wrote:
> 
> I just saw this; not sure this is a good idea or not, but
> it certainly tries to address one concern often mentioned
> with using flags to indicate languages:
> 
> http://www.absint.com/aisee/index_ru.htm
> 
> uses animated GIFs to cycle though different flags
> for the language it wants to indicate.
> 
> Regards,    Martin.

Received on Monday, 1 November 2004 07:57:49 UTC