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How am I supposed to know the Flag!

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21 November 2006 19:05  

riche127
Number of messages: 4
I am trying to get something translated and I have no clue what the flag of my 'translated to' country looks like. This is not user friendly! Please when a user wants something to be translated, at least add the countrys name in text!
 

21 November 2006 19:09  

cucumis
Number of messages: 3785
Yep, ok, I will do this. Which language are you looking for?
 

22 November 2006 04:59  

riche127
Number of messages: 4
Well I am looking for English to Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch and German. I would recommend small text below the flag check boxes
 

5 December 2006 06:17  

IC
Number of messages: 25
In my opinion, if You know some language well to translate to, You shoult know its flag as well ;-)
 

11 January 2007 02:57  

Una Smith
Number of messages: 429

Riche127's point is that the *requester*, who does not know the target language, has a very hard time picking the target language by the corresponding flag. As a requester I too experienced this and I agree that for a requester the flags are not user friendly. I solved it by reading the source of the webpage, where lo and behold, the file names of the flag images told me what I needed to know. But still I had to count the flags by 6's to work from the source file to the webpage. Maybe simply add to the HTML alt= tags (in each display language) that name the language?

Thanks!
 

11 January 2007 13:00  

IC
Number of messages: 25
Well, I think there is "alt" tag all the time on those flags. Just hold mouse cursor on flag and name of the language will show on :-)
 

11 January 2007 13:11  

cucumis
Number of messages: 3785
The alt tag is present on each flag. Maybe some browser don't display it but it works on Internet Explorer and I think Firefox too.
 

11 January 2007 17:25  

Una Smith
Number of messages: 429
I went back and looked. OK The alt tags do display in my browser (Safari) but only after a delay of a second or so. So scanning the flags to find the ones you want can take at least a minute and more likely several minutes. Scanning down is hard beause the alt tag gets in the way.
 

11 January 2007 18:13  

cucumis
Number of messages: 3785
Yes, I agree that I should add the language names as plain text, it' in the todo list
 

21 March 2007 02:24  

Una Smith
Number of messages: 429
Another "todo" list item: On user pages, the flags do not appear to have alt tags.
 

21 March 2007 06:07  

cucumis
Number of messages: 3785
Thx, can you tell me one flag without a tag, in order I can check quickly ?
 

21 March 2007 13:13  

Una Smith
Number of messages: 429
On cambull's user page, http://www.cucumis.org/members_1_u/profile_p_48895.html here
 

26 June 2007 02:15  

Spasty
Number of messages: 48
Right click and then click "view image." The language name is in the URL. The main difficulties arise when you have languages with many countries that speak it (Spanish especially).
 
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