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Dec 17	comment	Are the flags of any countries controversial to use in a UI? @Tyriar. I don't see the English flag there. I see the Union flag. As I said, I wouldn't expect anyone outside the UK to even recoginise the English flag (St George's Cross, in case you were wondering).
Dec 16	comment	Are the flags of any countries controversial to use in a UI? @Tyriar. I would never expect to see the English flag used to represent the English language. Nor would I necessarily expect the English flag to be recognised by anyone not from the UK (or perhaps Ireland).
Dec 12	comment	Localization of Password Input Any server should allow Unicode input. If it doesn't, it's broken. And passwords are stored as salted hashes, which usually means some subset of ASCII (often hex strings). So it shouldn't really be a problem. Disallowing strong passwords is bad.
Dec 11	comment	Should we use a sound/jingle when users arrive on our site or open our app? @Igor-G. The latest Firefox doesn't reload tabs till required, which is wonderful when you open the browser with a couple of hundred tabs (and yes, I know I shouldn't do that, but I do).
Dec 2	comment	What is the idea behind the download dialog of Internet Explorer? +1 for the clippy line.
Dec 2	comment	The meaning of 'between' As a by-the-way, I would understand from 10 through 20, but only because I was brought up Jehovah's Witness, and so exposed to a lot of American English in my youth.
Dec 1	answered	Are these religious icons clear enough without supplementary labels?
Dec 1	revised	What would be a good non-religious icon to represent that a person has died? Incorporated link from comments.
Dec 1	suggested	suggested edit on What would be a good non-religious icon to represent that a person has died?
Dec 1	comment	What would be a good non-religious icon to represent that a person has died? @MathewFoscarini. I'd go with "I (still) aten't dead".
Nov 26	comment	Why do people mount TVs so high on the wall in their homes? @MonicaCellio. Because older tellies were smaller, and would fit beside the fireplace. These massive screens don't.
Nov 26	comment	Traffic light, no more shapes? @André. There's also blinking amber lights at pedestrian crossings, which basically mean that cars are free to move if the pedestrian has cleared the crossing.
Nov 26	comment	Traffic light, no more shapes? By The Mall, in London, there are pedestrian crossing lights and horse-rider crossing lights. Seriously.
Nov 26	comment	Why do Microwave oven UIs fail? The one thing you've left out is the ability to enter a specific amount of time and not cook for that time, just beep at the end of it. My parents' microwave is very commonly used as an egg timer and for various similar kitchen-related functions.
Nov 26	comment	Why do Microwave oven UIs fail? My parents' microwave has these features, but they're hidden somewhere. It's all digital input, no analogue features at all. However, it also functions as a clock (digital) and as a timer (it can count down to a beep), which is quite handy in the kitchen.
Nov 26	comment	How to create the best form asking buyers for their delivery address? That would not work for Ireland. Personal Name (necessary; and the post office knows where everyone lives by name), Townsland Name, Postal Town, County are the fields wanted for a rural address. For an urban address you want the street and the house number (if there is one; if not, rely on the local knowledge of the post office knowing the personal name). Of course, there may also be house names, and in Dublin there are post codes .....
Nov 19	comment	What image and message use in the “Not found” page (404 error page) Oh. I've just worked out you meant gas in the American sense: petrol. And you mean it's a fuel company with a lot of filling stations. I think.
Nov 19	comment	What image and message use in the “Not found” page (404 error page) "a gas company that is allways there when u r on the road" What on Earth is that supposed to mean? Do you mean they do a lot of billboard advertising on roadsides?
Nov 18	comment	Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead? It's a skeuomorph, like the click-whirr noise of a digital camera.
Nov 5	comment	Is user centered design only about hygiene factors? The readability of this answer would be immeasurably improved by the addition of a colon after the word opposite.