- From: Eduard Pascual <herenvardo@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 01:32:39 +0000
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Samuel Santos <samaxes at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Samuel Santos wrote: >> > >> > I find it very hard to convince some clients that in order to have the >> > browse button in their language they must configure their browsers. The >> > vast majority of them don't even know where they can configure the >> > default browser language, and don't feel they should even have to do it. >> > It's also strange for them to have all the buttons in their language >> > except the browse buttons. >> >> I understand but why don't they also complain about, say, the title of the >> dialog box that comes up? Or the items on the context menus? >> >> Why do they use the wrong language browser in the first place? > > In Portugal a lot computers come with the english OS version. > This means that the browser is in english and configured to have english as > the default language. > > The problem with the input file button is that the client/user assumes that > the text that appears in it is the developer's responsibility, like with the > other button controls. > In the example you gave he knows that the dialog box is from the UA > (browser) and has nothing to do with the rest of the application. > I'm pretty sure that this happens a lot in non-english countries. I agree with Samuel in that this is an issue. In Catalunya, most often Spanish software is used (both OS and browsers), because a lot of the software is not easily (or at all) available in Catalan (specially Microsoft software, such as Windows and IE, which ammount for a quite big fraction of web surfers). Seeing Spanish stuff in pages that are supposed to be in Catalan is quite annoying (especially when keeping in mind some historic factors). I can understand that there may be some security concerns with this control; but I don't think changing the "Browse" caption poses any threat. But if there is so much paranoia on this, browsers could be allowed (or even required) to ask for confirmation when picking a file if the caption has been changed (something like "Are you sure you would like to submit C:\example.txt to example.com?" should be enough, and users would easily see such question as comming from the UA rather than from the webpage).
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