Re: Language problem
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:35:29PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:10:10PM +0200, [Admin at dDH] wrote:
We (ddh.nl) link to http://www.debian.org/intro/about.nl.html from our
home page. When I follow this link With Mozilla (1.5), a pop-up asks me
to download a Korean font of 2.1 MB, with 'download' selected as default :-(
Mozilla probably wants to download the font because of the Korean
characters at the bottom of the page which identify the Korean
translation.
I don't know of a better solution.
Probably bug Mozilla so that you don't have to answer "NO I DON'T WANT TO
DONWLOAD THOSE FONTS!" every time you access a page at debian.org after
starting up the browser. The answer is kept in memory is for one browser
session but not when a new browser is started up, it should behave like the
'do you want to remember this form?', 'do you want me to store cookies?')
I don't agree. And remember Mozilla is the most compliant browser.
If you put a language font on a page, it's logical Mozilla wants to
download it. The user should not have to experiment with cookies to
prevent that, 'normal' people don't use cookies or delete them.
I've tried http://www.debian.org/intro/about.de.html and now it wants to
download a Japanese font too :-(
There is a very simple solution: DON'T PUT THESE FONTS ON THESE PAGES!
If you think you need this: you need it on the English home page only,
and at the top of the page. Best would be one 'language link'.
And BTW, I don't think there are users out there who don't know what
their language is called in English.
On other home pages it is useless: people don't scroll down a page which
they can't read, to see if there might be a language link for them ;-)
This is typically too 'user friendly': Maybe, maybe you will help one
Korean user a year who by accident ended up at the Finnish home page
.... Or a Russian user who ended up at the Italian home page.
(And by accident scrolled down :)
The price for that is thousands of users ending up wasting their time,
installing a language they don't even understand, by accident!
Kinda 'spyware like' ...
And if people do understand what's going on: they will hate you for that.
Please let me know what you do. Being a responsible webmaster myself, I
will stop linking to debian.org if this problem persists ...
All the best,
Boyd Noorda
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