proposal for kdevelop.org new website design

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Sam S. wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Niko Sams
> > <niko.sams at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Flags should never be used for language selection anyway. Flags
> >>> represent countries, not languages.
> >
> > Well, they're the best available graphical elements for representing
> > languages, too... Pretty much everyone does it like that.
>
> Since when is "everyone else does it" a valid argument? Pretty much
> everyone
> has invalid HTML code too, that doesn't make it right.
>
> > If you see a flag icon on a web page, you'll instantly know that's
> > where you can select the website language. That's why it's important
> > to show it.
>
> If a Brazilian sees the Portugal flag, he may not even know what it is.
>
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html
>
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Google doesn't use flags, they have (picture-less) comboboxes iirc.
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