Re: [libreoffice-website] Download page again

Hi plinio, *,

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:53 PM, plino <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:
> Two problems with the download page:
>
> 1) Language detection depends on the browser used :)

Yes - as the language is determined by the browser's language/regional
settings returned.

concrete it does this:
(navigator.language) ? navigator.language : navigator.userLanguage

i.e. if navigator.language (Browser's UI language) is available, use
that, otherwise use navigaor.userLanguage (IE, regional settings)

> Under Firefox I get the "en-US English US",

expected, firefox returns/supports navigator.language

> under Opera 11 I get (ru)
> Russian (i.e. the first item on the list)

This is unexpected and could be a bug or some kind of privacy setting
in opera to not return any of those properties,

> and under IE6 (yes, I know it's
> oudated but I only use it when everything else fails) I get "pt (português)"

Expected as well, doesn't support navigator.language, but returns
navigator.userLangauge instead
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534713(v=VS.85).aspx

> Both Firefox and IE make sense. Maybe there should be an extra tick box to
> "automagically" select between browser language or locale?

Well - different browsers return different values... I don't think
itis possible to do at all, but if you can point me to some javascript
that does this, I can add it...

> (Opera obviously has a problem...)

Yes, to debug this, can you please visit http://jsfiddle.net, paste this:
<script type="text/javascript">
    alert(navigator.userAgent);
    alert(navigator.language);
    alert(navigator.userLanguage);
</script>

into the HTML box at the top-left and click "run", then copy and paste
the output of the alert boxes.

> 2) The language selection dropbox doesn't seem to be  sorted by any
> criteria. It is not sorted by the two letter code (arguably because users
> don't know their two letter code?)

yes.

> but it's not sorted alphabetically
> either.

It is sorted alphabetically, but capital letters come before lower
case letters, and accented characters come before regular ones, for
non-latin letters, it is either at top or at bottom.

But as there has been a request to use iso-code for sorting already, I
guess I'll just switch it back to iso-code sorting..

ciao
Christian

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