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Is it absolutely necessary to show the currently selected language in a language selector?
There are three choices of language. At least on mobile it would be nice if I could save a little space in the footer by omitting the currently active language. This seems risky though as it means the ...
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Country/Region Specific locales: How much is it important?
In our website, we are providing more than one language choice, so users will be able to use the website if they knew any of these languages.
However, it surprised me that one site I've visited ...
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Language of language names in the language selector?
Imagine a site that's available in multiple languages. The language is detected automatically by looking at the IP or the browser header. But that's not bulletproof, so a few users might end up on a ...
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Which is easier to use: List of people sorted by FirstName, LastName or LastName, FirstName?
If you have a list of people, is it better to order them by FirstName, LastName or LastName, FirstName?
Telephone books list by last name first:
Outlook lists by first name first:
Is one way ...
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Globalization Patterns for Dates Without Year
In my application, there is a field that represents the end of the accounting year for an entity. This "date" is the same every year, so what we currently present to the user is field with a month ...
