Changing the button labels in a confirm box
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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 2 Dec 2007 16:31 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > leosarasua(a)gmail.com wrote: >> I am writing a page in French and I need to create a confirm box, but I >> want to change the labels of the buttons from "OK" and "Cancel" into >> "Oui" and "Non". > > It will be most certainly be "Oui" and "Non" in a French user agent (UA) by > default. Sorry, I meant "OK" and the French equivalent of "Cancel" ("Annuler"?) of course. PointedEars
From: leosarasua on 3 Dec 2007 02:33 On Dec 2, 10:31 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...(a)web.de> wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > > leosara...(a)gmail.com wrote: > >> I am writing a page in French and I need to create a confirm box, but I > >> want to change the labels of the buttons from "OK" and "Cancel" into > >> "Oui" and "Non". > > > It will be most certainly be "Oui" and "Non" in a French user agent (UA) by > > default. > > Sorry, I meant "OK" and the French equivalent of "Cancel" ("Annuler"?) of > course. > > PointedEars I couldn't get access to a French browser, but if what you say is true, then it adds another problem to confirm, because you don't know anymore what the buttons will say when a user opens your page in another part of the world. You could end up having something like this: "Click OK to proceed or Cancel to review your order: <<OK>> <<Annuler>>", which would leave the user wondering where is the "Cancel" button? Obviously, there should be more control on confirm and, from what I see here, there is no reason for it to be so restricted. So what are the Browser designers waiting for?
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 3 Dec 2007 16:39
leosarasua(a)gmail.com wrote: > On Dec 2, 10:31 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...(a)web.de> > wrote: >> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >>> leosara...(a)gmail.com wrote: >>>> I am writing a page in French and I need to create a confirm box, but I >>>> want to change the labels of the buttons from "OK" and "Cancel" into >>>> "Oui" and "Non". >>> It will be most certainly be "Oui" and "Non" in a French user agent (UA) by >>> default. >> Sorry, I meant "OK" and the French equivalent of "Cancel" ("Annuler"?) of >> course. >> [...] > > I couldn't get access to a French browser, but if what you say is > true, then it adds another problem to confirm, because you don't know > anymore what the buttons will say when a user opens your page in > another part of the world. You could end up having something like > this: "Click OK to proceed or Cancel to review your order: <<OK>> > <<Annuler>>", which would leave the user wondering where is the > "Cancel" button? You would employ means to make sure that the message is in the same language as the buttons, or not refer to the button captions at all, of course. > Obviously, there should be more control on confirm and, from what I > see here, there is no reason for it to be so restricted. So what are > the Browser designers waiting for? Even more incompetent developers? PointedEars -- Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee |