Thursday, March 3, 2011

Language Detection

Does your site pretend to be user-friendly by detecting the language setting in the operating system and automatically displaying the site in whatever language the user is running?

If so: STOP IT.

It's annoying and I hate having to search around to switch to English. Also, the Japanese is always slightly awkward.

I'm looking at you, Google and Foursquare.

Does your site pretend to be user-friendly by detecting the language setting in the operating system and automatically running the entire content through Google Translate?

If so: get off the internet. It's completely pointless.

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